These have a small, but passionate following and a few respected companies are buying into the idea.
I would like to hear the views of anyone who owns one, has heard one, or even has thoughts on the approach (good or bad).
In particular, I'm interested in the Tube Dacs from Audio Note. They have removed all filtering and oversampling, which they say makes their dacs sound much more musical and realistic, as it gets to the heart of the recording with no digital processing.
They would argue that the removal of the "brick wall" filter of conventional dacs, (which cuts out to much of what makes the recording believable eg. ambience etc) makes this approach sound more like Vinyl (where this info is left intact).
What they go on to say, is that all this makes 16 bit sound every bit as good as 24 bit, since every last ounce of info is extracted from the CD.
In the context of an all Audi Note system, I'm inclined to agree, as what I have heard has been truely impressive. I'm not so sure about just using one of their dacs in isolation - hence the reason for this thread.
Thank you for reading.
I would like to hear the views of anyone who owns one, has heard one, or even has thoughts on the approach (good or bad).
In particular, I'm interested in the Tube Dacs from Audio Note. They have removed all filtering and oversampling, which they say makes their dacs sound much more musical and realistic, as it gets to the heart of the recording with no digital processing.
They would argue that the removal of the "brick wall" filter of conventional dacs, (which cuts out to much of what makes the recording believable eg. ambience etc) makes this approach sound more like Vinyl (where this info is left intact).
What they go on to say, is that all this makes 16 bit sound every bit as good as 24 bit, since every last ounce of info is extracted from the CD.
In the context of an all Audi Note system, I'm inclined to agree, as what I have heard has been truely impressive. I'm not so sure about just using one of their dacs in isolation - hence the reason for this thread.
Thank you for reading.