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Originally Posted by mkozlows
Will you be posting pictures of the insides soon? Call me crazy, but those are my favorite pictures.
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They'll come along sometime relatively soon; the pictures shown are of the prototypes and the boards have a few jumpers on them. Production boards are due in shortly, and we'll photo them as soon as we can.
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Originally Posted by jonjungel
I didn't necessarily mean that you should post measurements, though that would be great ofcourse. I was thinking more of reviews with measurements, like they do at stereophile or soundstage.
I guess what I meant was that I can't wait to see a thorough review.  .. |
Me neither. That will take quite a while though. It's sometime a year between the time we send Stereophile gear and when a review comes out. And sometimes, of course, we don't even get a review. SoundStage is a bit quicker as they don't have to buy paper and wait for a press and mail.
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Originally Posted by mrarroyo
How about upsampling or oversampling? I mean if my transport or pc puts out 16/44 will the Ultra Desktop DAC be able to upsample or oversample? Thanks.
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Oh the ESS DAC is an up/over sampling beast. It's also amazingly complex and I have to admit it's somewhat over my head what's going on inside that chip. That's, at least in part, due to the fact that ESS doesn't want people to really know what they're doing in there. It's quite unusual.
Here's the spec sheet.
Here's a more in depth description of the part ... good luck understanding it.
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here's the patent for the internal digital signal upsampling/processing patent ... not a chance of understanding it unless you're a cryptographer/DSPengineer.