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And it's the inner beauty that counts, after all...I would gladly pay it for the inner beauty alone!
And it's the inner beauty that counts, after all...I would gladly pay it for the inner beauty alone!
I don't think this is really very different from, say, Topping's strategy of making DACs with ever better measurements. Their improvements are completely inaudible since their previous products were already perfect. We are entertaining ourselves with sophisticated engineering, the lab measurements that reveal it, and audio gear for its own sake as a hobby. It's fun.What was Shenzhenaudio thinking? Why did the distributor ask a popular measurement site to measure a DAC that is obviously not designed to please the measurement crowd?
This abstraction of the "R2R crowd" is interesting. Makes me think of Marxian class abstractions, which, of course, don't really exist and are poor predictors of the behavior of individuals (because life is way more complex than these categorical simplifications can describe). Also makes me think of Bateson's ideas of schismogenesis, an abstract labeling of "the other" that serves above all to better define "us" as different from "them", in which categorical oversimplification serves to intensify peer-group relations -- name calling, basically.R2R crowd won't care for measurements anyway.
I kinda agree. I think it's too expensive for a home audio DAC. And I think R2R is silly. But assuming some people want expensive DACs and some people want R2R and these groups intersect, this is the niche product for them. And I agree that it's performance is fine for home audio use.I kind of understand the company's approach here. Why not profit from people that really believe that R2R architecture is superior to delta-sigma chips. Overall, it's a good product in my opinion. Most people (including me) listen to CD quality content (16bit 44.1kHz) and from the measurements it seems it does a fine job of reproducing such content. I personally see no reason for R2R dacs to exist, apart maybe for didactical purposes, but I know some people that swear that R2R is the only type of DAC to listen to. I'll stick with my ES9038PRO dac for now![]()
I wouldn't hold my breath. But if we see even 75dB that would be nice.Look, they've taken an audiophile fetish and implemented it with some technical competency. Good on them; it will find buyers. It's not for me, but it's not as though it's broken like some of the high dollar stuff we've seen here.
Will a 95+ SINAD tube amp be next?! Wouldn't that be something....
It's not. You're clearly over-interpreting it.This abstraction of the "R2R crowd" is interesting.
Why would it be that crucial anyway? It is only about audio. If people react in somewhat emotional way about such irrelevant statements, there's nothing I can do about it.And how does that person react to this kind of statement about the "R2R crowd"?
I think it's rather some generic part they silk-screened onto, but it's hard to tell from the low resolution image.Interesting that they even machined a branded lid for the transformer!
I get less romantic about obsolete electronics, but maybe because I'm a soulless EEYou could appreciate the fine engineering of a well performing R2R Dac in the way that one can appreciate a fine mechanical watch. Cheaper and obviously better performing technologies exist but somehow that is sometimes not the point.
There's the important part. I don't 'get' the fetish audio-neurotics have for R2R. But, okay, go ahead and pretend you can hear that minuscule part of the music and spend the money. And be smug about it... Extoll its "clarity" or something.I see no benefit to R2R DACs so I can't recommend the Ladder Schumann DAC.
Try crossfeedI recently purchased a LCD-X and i am looking into making it sound wider in my head with an R2R like Hiby RS2 or anything that comes out next year,
chord mojo 2?Try crossfeed
https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dsp_meiercfchord mojo 2?
The is promising. I use a mac so i'm looking into an alternate addon on the soundsource apphttps://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dsp_meiercf
https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/
One guy really likes it:
Best of all, it's free.