Yeah, I may have to as taking DMP around without the case isn’t convenient as I think. The jeans and it brass buttons or spikes would scratch up the DMP....down side is that i have to buy form Japan ...LoL
@buzzlulu , if you listen to DMP with
DSD remastering on, you are using Sony DSP chip processor. It isn’t an FPGA as FPGA only stand for Field Programmable Gated Array....it is used for many industries such as automaton and so on. These FPGA were never intended for High quality audio as it was never engineered to eliminate noises or Jitter. Yes, the newer generations are Ofcourse improved ...but still , those people never cared about Audio. The reason why Chord and other people uses it is because they are not capable of producing their own IC, so buying a Massive Production FPGA and program it is a better choice.
The reason why Sony isn’t using S-Master and choose to use AK4497EQ is already listed as I posted (to be able to enable DSD-remastering engine without implementing another FPGA and make the size even larger)
remember, Sony is capable of not only the algorithm for DSD processing without delta-sigma IC chip, but is also capable of making their own dedicated Digital Signal Processing Chip! The DSP is the most important here as it is noises free and engineered for high quality sound. The AK4497EQ is also multi bit DAC that is capable of bypassing 1 bit stream
Dedicatedly. Again, it isn’t easy for Sony to decide to pick AK4497EQ as they are very proud of their own product.