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Any 32/384 USB DAC below 1000USD range?

post #1 of 5
8/1/11 at 7:23pm
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I see all  32/384 USB DAC are above 1500 range. Anyone seen DAC that is below 1000 even chinese made?. What about asus Essence one which seems 384khz upsampling.

 

Help pls. biggrin.gif

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post #2 of 5
8/1/11 at 10:08pm
Why the f*** would you want a 32/384 DAC, apart from exceedingly rare audiophile only music (read, superlative recording but crappy performance), noone uses this format.

And if you are talking about internal resampling, many DAC do it without telling you, not that resampling pas 100+ kHz is really useful anyway.
Edited by khaos974 - 8/2/11 at 7:58pm
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8/2/11 at 7:49pm
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Anyone?.

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post #4 of 5
8/3/11 at 8:53am
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http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/Young-DAC-M2Tech-384khz-Async-USB

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post #5 of 5
8/3/11 at 9:14am
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Originally Posted by khaos974 View Post

Why the f*** would you want a 32/384 DAC, apart from exceedingly rare audiophile only music (read, superlative recording but crappy performance), noone uses this format.

And if you are talking about internal resampling, many DAC do it without telling you, not that resampling pas 100+ kHz is really useful anyway.

 

Because the companies like to get people hooked on certain buzzwords when they know nothing else about a DAC, and it looks like they have succeeded in this guys case.  This is exactly what happened with some of the buzzwords when HDTV was first becoming mainstream.  If he took the time to read and learn about how DACs work, he'd come to his own realization than anything over 24/96 is absolutely pointless...... maybe in some rare cases 24/192 but even that would be a huge stretch.  32/384 is beyond ludicrous.  "We've gone from light speed to ludicrous speed."  "Ludicrous speed?"  "Ludicrous speed!"


Edited by IPodPJ - 8/3/11 at 9:16am
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