[Headphony]

I'm just reading the Stereophile CES blog and it looks like there are lots of interesting new DAC's and source components forthcoming. Some appealing looking picks:
New Bel Canto DACs
Simaudio Moon 300D DAC
Furutech GT40 USB DAC with Phono Stage

Not sure if these have been discussed yet. Probably not because they are so new.

 

[weibby]

CES is usually for investors and mainstream public.
Audio geeks esp on audio forums, know about the products in development.

I wonder if they'll feature head-direct though.

 

[AmanGeorge]

Head-Direct was indeed there, I was surprised to see them - they had a little booth off to the side in the South Hall and had a nice crowd listening to a couple of EF5/HE-5 combos they had brought along.

I didn't see any of the DACs mentioned, although I did have a brief listen to the HRT Music Streamer Pro and will hopefully be buying one soon (availability permitting).

 

[DaveBSC]

Supposedly Simaudio is going to do a DAC only version of their new 750D, using the same ESS Sabre DAC. Looking forward to that one.

 

[Asr]

Also the new Exposure 2010S2 and 3010S2 lines which include their CD players. The 3010S2 CD player is more interesting due to its use of the TI PCM1704 as DAC.

 

[soundboy]

On the SACD front....

Sony will be introducing 3 standalone Blu-ray players that will have SACD playback capability. Kal Rubinson of Stereophile mentioned on sa-cd.net that he asked Sony whether these new SACD capable Blu-ray players will output DSD via their HDMI outputs and the answer was.....yes.

 

[SilverCans]

You know, come to think of it, since Sony was the main developer of both Blu-ray and SACD, and given their new upcoming players with SACD support, I'm going to go out on a limb and say there will be no Blu-ray audio format. What you all think?

 

[weibby]

I wonder given 25gigs of space, what kinda music resolution it'll be?

 

[tosehee]

Quote:

Originally Posted by weibby /img/forum/go_quote.gif I wonder given 25gigs of space, what kinda music resolution it'll be?

50g to be exact. 25g on a single layer.

With that said, I can see a bluray used for a movie and concert musics, but SACD would still be a choice for hi-res audio, or even computer download.