[Oublie]

I was told by a dealer recently that you can't get a nos dac with balanced output. Is this true or not?

 

[SleepyOne]

Actually maybe correct for current NOS, haven't seen XLR there...

 

[spritzer]

Here is one...

 

[olblueyez]

Stello DA100 Signature

 

[Oublie]

I suspected he may have been talking out of his A@$3 thanks. He did have some phenominal gear so ill be bringing my kit over to demo some dacs. He's going to arrange it for the same day as his UK STAX rep is visiting so we can have a mini headfi meet.

Another question with a bit of an assumption. With cd players and dacs we have oversampling and upsampling i.e. the reanalysis of data on the disc in order to make sure its read properly and then upsampling where the rate is changed from 44.1 up to whatever. Now considering my primary source is my computer using flac encoded from cd can i assume that because of this there is no benefit to resampling / rereading of data as the computer is configure for bit perfect playback at 44.1khz? Or am i missing something about this process that doesn't actually affect me or does more than i think?

 

[Pale Rider]

Quote:

Originally Posted by spritzer /img/forum/go_quote.gif Here is one...

That Audio Zone is an excellent buy. I almost picked it up myself. In the end, I opted to have Nicholas Chua at Promitheus build me a balanced one.

 

[spritzer]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pale Rider /img/forum/go_quote.gif That Audio Zone is an excellent buy. I almost picked it up myself. In the end, I opted to have Nicholas Chua at Promitheus build me a balanced one.

The AudioZone is great and it fits neatly on top of my Stax amp. Win, win...

 

[SleepyOne]

Stello is 24bit chip and not 16bits. It does has by-pass filter though.