MLGrado
500+ Head-Fier
Super happy about that one, along with iCAN it put us on the map! May it serve you well, cheers
I would like to find an original iDAC, just for being the overboard collector of electronic 'stuff' that I am.
If I recall correctly, the first one was built on ESS chipset, then the very NEXT one to come out was the iDSD nano, which is when the Burr-Brown DSD1793 came on board and started making iFi history.
I miss that Nano. At the time I was running an original Audioquest Dragonfly that has no support above USB 1 standard, so limited to 96khz. Then comes this 'new kid' and his toy could do DSD up to 128x.. And we all oooooh and awwwwed. And purchased.
It still sounds great. That DAC is almost entirely consumed by the digital stage.. amazing how good the simple analog stage left over worked.