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Quiz: Which DAC Is This?

amirm

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How about some fun? I just put a DAC on the bench and got this colorful results:

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Let the guessing begin! :)
 

Blumlein 88

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A tube output stage DAC that has dropping response past 1 khz?
Can you tell us if I'm warm or cold?
Or maybe use the audio euphemisms of thermionic or solid state?
 

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Is it a portable DAC?
 

restorer-john

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It's a USB D/A. I'm going to say is a NOS filterless unit. Maybe that DAC-3 full of TDA-1543s, passive IV and no buffer stage...

PS. If the prize for guessing it correctly is the D/A converter, no thanks, you can keep it.. :)
 

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But no, it's not it, it was incapable of 2V at 0dB.
 

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Superb Chanel* matching?

*My spellcheck made channel into Chanel. Maybe my spellchecker is on to something; it’s a piece of conspicuous consumption good!
 

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I don't know if the Airist Whatever from Massdrop was shipped already. Maybe this unit or the Geshelli ENOG2 Pro?
 

rajapruk

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The ”game-changing” Massdrop x Airist Audio R-2R Dac is my guess as well.

Does it deliver: ”... accurate reproduction with resolution, attack and decay that sounds realistic, enough information to get a sense of space and instrumentation, and voicing that adds to the perception of true performance and enjoyment.” ??
 
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