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<!-- #thumb --> <p>In my post <a title="Cherished Audiophile beliefs" href="http://www.pstracks.com/pauls-posts/cherished-audiophile-beliefs/11668/">Cherished Audiophile beliefs</a>, I *erroneously reported that MSB used the PCM1704 R2R ladder DAC. *Not cool, as I simply assumed their endorsement of the architecture on their website meant they were using the same DAC so many others did. *Designer*Dustin Symanski wrote to correct me.</p>
<p>“MSB Technology has never ever used the PCM1704 in any product. I know because I designed them all…. While its true that MSBs discrete ladder DACs ‘had’ a similar architecture (15 years ago with my 1st generation design) in the beginning, and that the poor analog performance of the PCM1704 is what drove me to reverse engineer it to see where Burr Brown went wrong with the design and fix it in my own implementation, the recent ladder DACs MSB manufactures has almost nothing in common with the PCM1704.”</p>
<p>My apologies. *MSB makes quite good sounding DACS, as do the many company’s that use the 1704, all employing a form of the R2R ladder architecture I let you know about. Mr. Symanski also took me to task over the comment that it was a 23 bit DAC rather than its advertised 24 bits. *I’ll let that one pass. *I do appreciate the correction to my post.</p>
<p>I spent much of today sucking water out of a basement and didn’t have time to properly write a post other than this apology. *Tomorrow should be better.</p>
<p>Cheers.</p>
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<p>“MSB Technology has never ever used the PCM1704 in any product. I know because I designed them all…. While its true that MSBs discrete ladder DACs ‘had’ a similar architecture (15 years ago with my 1st generation design) in the beginning, and that the poor analog performance of the PCM1704 is what drove me to reverse engineer it to see where Burr Brown went wrong with the design and fix it in my own implementation, the recent ladder DACs MSB manufactures has almost nothing in common with the PCM1704.”</p>
<p>My apologies. *MSB makes quite good sounding DACS, as do the many company’s that use the 1704, all employing a form of the R2R ladder architecture I let you know about. Mr. Symanski also took me to task over the comment that it was a 23 bit DAC rather than its advertised 24 bits. *I’ll let that one pass. *I do appreciate the correction to my post.</p>
<p>I spent much of today sucking water out of a basement and didn’t have time to properly write a post other than this apology. *Tomorrow should be better.</p>
<p>Cheers.</p>
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