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Title: AD's
Post by: georgeh on December 22, 2006, 10:20:19 AM
I soon will have a P2, so I am slowly moving into the 24bit world, and DVD-a
i have purchased an inexpensive DVD-A player, works fine. Know I am thinking to lighten the load of my receiver I should add a AD to the mix
Any suggestions?
thanks
Title: Re: AD's
Post by: eric.B on December 22, 2006, 11:24:11 AM
dont you mean "D>A"?  if so.. here are three..

benchmark DAC1
grace m902
MYTEK Stereo96 DAC
Title: Re: AD's
Post by: JasonSobel on December 22, 2006, 12:23:24 PM
before you pruchase an external D/A converter, be sure that your "inexpensive DVD-A player" outputs a full 24 bit signal.  some cheaper players only output 16/48 on digital outs.  others have the limit at 24/48, even if your source material is 24/96.  best to check that you can output a full 24/96 signal to the DAC before you spend your money there...
Title: Re: AD's
Post by: BC on December 22, 2006, 04:51:37 PM
Quote from: JasonSobel on December 22, 2006, 12:23:24 PM
before you pruchase an external D/A converter, be sure that your "inexpensive DVD-A player" outputs a full 24 bit signal.  some cheaper players only output 16/48 on digital outs.  others have the limit at 24/48, even if your source material is 24/96.  best to check that you can output a full 24/96 signal to the DAC before you spend your money there...

Anyone know of a list out there of DVD-a players that will output the full-resolution digital datastream? Downsampling sux!
Title: Re: AD's
Post by: georgeh on December 22, 2006, 06:00:11 PM
Whoops, looks like this is going back.
Thanks Jason, it does only go to 48kHz. Odd because i borrowed a dvd-a disc from someone to check it out. Tried to use the bitstream/pcm digi cable to my reciever but couldn't get it to work, switched to the ang cables and it worked fine. I just thought that had something to do with which device was doing the D>A conversion, never thought it wasn't playing less then 96kHz
Back to the drawing board, the unit was a panasonic dvd-f87, just cost 116.00, too sweet to be true, i guess

I say a post a while ago about different modles to buy, i'll check it out and pick up one of them
Title: Re: AD's
Post by: georgeh on December 22, 2006, 06:33:47 PM
Actually, if it plays them, but just drops it to 48kHz from 96kHz, then it might be fine. I plan on recording at 24/48 anyways. 
Thanks again
Title: Re: AD's
Post by: BobW on December 24, 2006, 10:41:07 PM
Add one -  Apogee Mini-DAC
I didn't give it a full workout, but really liked what I heard.  very clean, transparent and wanted to try it on the home system, but could not.
Not giving up the Bechmark this week, however.
Title: Re: AD's
Post by: muj on December 25, 2006, 04:56:36 AM

LOOK FOR A USED ARCAM HDCD DAC! yep..they go very cheap these days. ;D