Hi all. Just thought I'd bring to the attention the release of an intersting sub-$1k DAC. It's the Music Hall dac25.2 which I came across in the Stereophile CES blog. It has USB (amongst other) inputs, as well as RCA and XLR output (doubt it is fully balanced though). Even has a headphone out. Stereophile blurb:
Music Hall was showing a new USB DAC wit a tube output stage. The Music Hall dac25.2 ($600) uses an Electro-Harmonix 6922 tube, a Texas Instruments PCM1796 24-bi/192kHz DAC chip, a TI SRC4192 Asynchronous sample-rate converter (with a high-precision active crystal oscillator master clock), and four digital inputs (S/PDIF, TOSLINK, XLR, and USB). It sports re-clocking and user-adjustable upsampling (96kHz or 192kHz). It outputs analog via XLR or RCA.
To those of you who understand/know the various chips and components, kindly decipher the above to try help gauge if this might be the one
IIRC though, doesn't Music Hall rebrand their electronics from manufacturers in the Far East (not saying there is anything wrong with that)? Please correct me if I am wrong
. Also it seems the official CES page calls this the DAC 1.2
Cheers
X
Music Hall was showing a new USB DAC wit a tube output stage. The Music Hall dac25.2 ($600) uses an Electro-Harmonix 6922 tube, a Texas Instruments PCM1796 24-bi/192kHz DAC chip, a TI SRC4192 Asynchronous sample-rate converter (with a high-precision active crystal oscillator master clock), and four digital inputs (S/PDIF, TOSLINK, XLR, and USB). It sports re-clocking and user-adjustable upsampling (96kHz or 192kHz). It outputs analog via XLR or RCA.
To those of you who understand/know the various chips and components, kindly decipher the above to try help gauge if this might be the one
IIRC though, doesn't Music Hall rebrand their electronics from manufacturers in the Far East (not saying there is anything wrong with that)? Please correct me if I am wrong
Cheers
X
