T+a dac8

I wonder why the update can't be done through the USB connection on a PC; maybe T+A fears some customers could brick the DAC while updating the firmware on their own and prefer to do it only at the factory or through authorized personnel.
 
Two of the best values out there in my view. Depends on your format leanings I would say. Since I am huge DSD fan, the T+A in the natural choice.
 
bart said:
I saw these announced in Belgium also earlier this week.
Steep prices (24,900€ for the SDV 3100) but if the pre-amp module is good, you save a lot of money of course.
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Hello Bart,

Is that price quote correct? I hope not - that would make it more expensive than the PDP 3100 HV SACD player which includes a DAC.
 
Randy Myers said:
Holy Crap... does HQPlayer even go up to DSD1024 :)....
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Randy according to its designer, Jussi said " Yes, it's been supported for a while already, but only recently devices have appeared that also support it. This device is "a little bit outside of my budget", but I've been testing DSD1024 on Holo Spring 2 DAC.

It takes about twice as much power as DSD512. With -2s filters and/or with help of recent GPUs it is not too hard to reach though. I've done most of my testing and measurements with poly-sinc-ext2. "
 
Randy Myers said:
Holy Crap... does HQPlayer even go up to DSD1024 :)....
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I get the part about converting an analog master to the highest resolution possible, i.e. for example DSD 128 or 256 in this case, and get better sound. But I am just not convinced that converting DSD 128 to DSD 1024 will get you any meaningfull additional quality, never mind the fact that you have to play via a laptop. The commercially available files does not go higher than DSD 256 as far as I am aware.

So I wonder if this is simply a numbers game and an arms race. But yeah, based on the sound from the DAC 8 DSD and the PDP 3000 HV I bet it sounds great!
 
soastrup said:
I get the part about converting an analog master to the highest resolution possible, i.e. for example DSD 128 or 256 in this case, and get better sound. But I am just not convinced that converting DSD 128 to DSD 1024 will get you any meaningfull additional quality, never mind the fact that you have to play via a laptop. The commercially available files does not go higher than DSD 256 as far as I am aware.

So I wonder if this is simply a numbers game and an arms race. But yeah, based on the sound from the DAC 8 DSD and the PDP 3000 HV I bet it sounds great!
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That's my suspicion as well. Even if there are consumer-marketed files beyond DSD 256, how many are there and, more importantly (to me at least), how many are of music I want to listen to?
 
The EMM Labs DA2 internally upsamples to DSD1024 so there must be some merit to these high rates; heck the Chord Dave upsamples to 5bit 104MHz and the Mola-Mola Tambaqui to 1bit 100MHz (much higher than DSD1024 which is 1bit 44.8MHz).
 
The highest that I have downloaded is DSD256, but I love up sampling to DSD512/48. I can only imagine their new converter at DSC1024...

I still buy the highest I can. To me, the better in the better out. The T+A is pretty amazing!
 
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