Is n-Dac asynchronous one ?

Posted by: Sourav Mazumder on 30 November 2013

Hi,

Does anyone have any idea whether N-Dac is asynchronous one ?

I went through the technical documentation on n-sac (a real treat). Looks like the way the buffereing and re-clocking is done n-Dac is essentially processing all incoming bytes in asynchronous manner. Still wanted to reconfirm this.

Other proof I'm seeing is irrespective of the transport (with my listening experience and limitation) I can hardly hear any difference in SQ. I have tried n-Dac with Sonos ZP90, CDX-2, UnitiServe - SSD, Oppo 103, Pioneer Elite N30. I have tried even hi resolution files (Meet Me In London from Naim lebel). The SQ is very similar and very difficult to find any sonic difference.

This is probably because of the robust architecture of n-Dac to nullify any jitter.

Any opinion ?

Regards,

Sourav

Posted on: 30 November 2013 by Aleg

It's not asynchronous in the sense that asynchronous is usually applied to USB-DACs to describe the type of USB-communication.

regarding your other remark, I hear differences in all types of sources and also between software players and between OS-settings/tweaks using the same software player. So, no nDAC is not the great equaliser IMHO.

cheers

aleg

Posted on: 30 November 2013 by Sourav Mazumder

Thats what I intended to mean Wat. Irrespective of what u use to feed spdif inputs of ndac the sound quality remains almost same - as long as the media is same the transport/server/streamer does not matter in my experience.

in my opinion ndac is the most value for money offering from Naim in streaming media space.

regards,

sourav