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auralic vega (Vega)
Indicative price: $3499
Elegant Vega (Vega) is auralic's flagship decoder, supporting dsd64 and dsd128 bitstreams, with PCM data ranging from 44.1/16 to 32/384 resolution levels. In addition, vega automatically boosts pcm data to 32-bit/1.5mhz, includes six user-selectable digital audio filters, provides femtosecond master clock time-base correction circuitry to control system clock jitter to within 82 femtoseconds (0.082 picoseconds), six built-in digital filtering modes, and discrete power supply design that reduces decoder chip analog power supply noise to less than 2UV. In addition, auralic vega also sounds great, offering a quiet sound background, excellent transparency and resolution, high expressiveness and natural warmth of sound.
berkeley audio alpha dac
series 2
Indicative price: $4995
The original Alpha DAC Gen 1 is not only one of the best digital-to-analog converters, it also sets a benchmark for price/performance for future Berkeley products. Today, Berkeley has released the same price Series 2 series, the new DAC series 2 is basically the same as the old version in appearance, compared to the 1st generation has more sophisticated performance, which can greatly improve the accuracy of the sound image. In addition to world-class CD source decoding, the alpha dac series 2 can handle sample rates of 192khz and 24-bit signals. Powerful analog output stages and variable outputs allow alpha dacs to drive power amplifiers directly, and you can still hear very good sound without the front stage. This is because alpha dacs have extremely high resolution, temporal purity, and dynamic characteristics. If you want to use usb-driven alpha dac, you need to use berkeley's alpha usb converter.
ear-yoshino 192 dacute
Reference price: $5895
The 192 dacute decoding part adopts the British wolfson 24bit/192khz upscaling and decoding chip, equipped with cirruslogic dsp digital filter (embedded with a calculation program written by tim de paravicni) and a receiver chip (compatible with usb, coaxial spdif and toslink spdif and other digital inputs), which can be used to select and process different digital inputs, 192 Dacute bile decoder with balanced xlr output, designers think that the bile machine line is simpler and more direct than the atomic particle line, less distortion, sound more musical and more humane, so tim will simulate the output part, independent left and right channels to ecc88 (6dj8 or 7dj8 can also be applied), to the output transformer as a left and right balanced phase and cross-connected output, analog output line to ear 912 pre-control amplifier as the design model. The 192 dacute bile decoder is also equipped with a variable volume controller, which allows the user to directly drive any bile or atomic particles directly to the rear stage power amplifier without the need for a front stage, because the 192 dacute bile decoder with bile output reaches a high level and high voltage output of up to 5v.
In addition to the 75 euro coaxial and toslink optical fiber digital input, the 192 dacute bile decoder is equipped with a usb input, and the highest digital input reception frequency is 44.1khz, 48khz, 96khz, 176.4khz, up to 192khz. The high-frequency extension force of the 192 dacute is significantly more restrained, and the analytical power of the 192 dacute bile decoder is not to take the high-definition "additive-free" high-analytical force route, but to focus on how to make it easier for users to put into music, so the musical taste of the 192 dacute bile decoder has been greatly improved, the sound quality has become more relaxed and relaxed, and the timbre is obviously modified with earl.
ps audio directstream
Reference price: $5999
Directstream DAC was once called the best DAC ever in ps audio because directstream can fully exploit digital signals that have been missing from past music files. Whether it is cd, download file, dsd, pcm can get more complete and rich digital signals through directstream, and convert them into pure analog signals directly to the power amplifier.
The biggest feature of directstream dac is that all the resulting digital signals (pcm or dsd) are upscaled to 10 times the amount of information dsd and then converted to pure dsd 1 bit digital signals are converted into analog signals by d/a. The dsd 1 bit itself is a record of more bits than the pcm that is closer to the analog signal, which not only eliminates the problem of the pcm decoding process, but also completely obtains all the contents and details of the original file. In order to perfectly convert pcm files to dsd format is not technically easy, directstream uses 66-bit fixed-point fir filters to eliminate the headroom problems commonly found in PCM, reduce noise in the 20~100khz region, and use the best sound processing hardware instead of the fastest.
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