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No PCM 1704 - DACs from audio-gd anymore? Why?

post #1 of 6
7/19/11 at 10:05am
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Hi everybody!

 

I noticed, that Audio-GD has nomore PCM 1704 - based DAC on the website. Back in December, there were a couple of them available, and they described the PCM 1704 - chip still as the most musical DAC-Chip available (even compared to the newer Sabre 32 chips). Their flagship featured 8 pieces of PCM 1704 - chips!

 

I'm a bit confused about the designs changing so quickly...

 

Any ideas, why they stopped selling PCM 1704 - DACs? Others are still convinced of them:

 

like for example

 

http://coemaudio.com.au/Sources/DACs/293/

 

or:

 

http://www.resolutionaudio.com/cantata.html

 

(this one is expensive but has been rated as simply and clearly the best DAC ever made by one of the major german hifi - magazines)

 

Cheers!

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post #2 of 6
7/19/11 at 6:59pm

We order 4k pcs PCM1704U-K from TI in Oct. 2010.

They should delivery to us in April 2011 .

 

At May TI tell us they can't produce version K and asked change to normal version but we refuse.

Later they asked me change to PCM1794 we still refuse and final we cancel the order .

 

 


Edited by Kingwa - 7/20/11 at 6:00am
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post #3 of 6
7/20/11 at 7:54am
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Dear Kingwa,

 

thank you for that clarification! So I consider myself lucky that I still got one of your (really great sounding!) PCM 1704 - based DACs!

 

Just for my curiosity: What makes the K-version different from the standard version?

 

Best regards


Edited by ursdiego - 7/20/11 at 7:55am
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post #4 of 6
7/20/11 at 11:04am

PCM-63K is dead, now 1704 dies... is the High End in sources dying? :)

But I'm extremely happy with my poor sigma-delta-PCM1792-based Cary 306 SACD

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post #5 of 6
7/20/11 at 3:12pm

So I guess that is the end of PCM1704U-K based DACs, at least for Audio-GD. Time to look on the used market.


Edited by log0 - 7/20/11 at 3:15pm
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post #6 of 6
7/20/11 at 6:05pm

There are still superb DAC chips being made, especially in chips intended for bluray decoding. With time I'm sure a new champion will arise...

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