BIG KHZILLA

Posted by: TOBYJUG on 05 December 2016

So the Naim DAC can do sample rates 32 kHz to 768 kHz from USB and this was from a good few years ago. More recently the Chord DAVE can go 44.1khz to 768 kHz and these numbers are " bettered " probably from other dacs out there.

I can understand how increase in numbers can result in more information etc. Who out there is utilising this facility ? How do you use this facility - what devices are used ? Where and how do you get hold of recordings that contain these numbers ? Is it any good - not just hi res - the recordings that have true big khzilla numbers ?

cheers.

Jug.

Posted on: 05 December 2016 by The Strat (Fender)

I know nothing of DAC design or technology but do the numbers in themselves tell you much if anything at all?

Regards,

Lindsay

Posted on: 05 December 2016 by TOBYJUG

The Strat (Fender) posted:
I know nothing of DAC design or technology but do the numbers in themselves tell you much if anything at all?
Regards,
Lindsay

Yes it tells me a lot about the commitment these designers have in the product that's been designed, but doesn't tell me a lot about how it's going to be used by the users. Your comment doesn't help much in this respect.

Posted on: 05 December 2016 by The Strat (Fender)

Well as I said I know little beyond the fact that my CDP has a DAC. I think I once read that the DAC in itself wasn't necessarily the most important part of the CDP. There's a protagonist on another Forum who says that all DACs sound the same. I imagine he is entirely wrong not least because I can never recall 2 CDPs sounding the same.

But back to your main point in effect the full potential of the technology is limited by the software available?

Regards,

Lindsay

Posted on: 05 December 2016 by TOBYJUG

Yes Tobyjugs can never be a protagonist in any things other than been implicated in some devious activity through imbibing. But that's besides the point.

Posted on: 05 December 2016 by Noogle

AFAIK, 192kHz/24-bit is the highest resolution digital music that's commercially available. I have a couple of albums in this format. Which begs the question, how did Naim test 768kHz/32-bit ? Presumably by software upsampling of lower res. files to generate this format.

Posted on: 05 December 2016 by Bert Schurink

As always technology will give us newer and better formats, so I wouldn't be amazed if at some point in time the higher ones come out. Already in DSD you see a big variation.

I also see for instance more and more delivery of surround digital files, nobody was interested in it before.....