| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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What's the scoop on CD players using "one bit" DACs ? I've seen this
term in several adverts lately. Yes, I could go to the CD conference
but I'm more at home here !!
thx karl
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| 2656.1 | Time Vs. Real Estate? | DRUMS::FEHSKENS | len, EMA, LKG2-2/W10, DTN 226-7556 | Tue Jun 04 1991 10:26 | 10 |
My impression (perhaps erroneous) is that they do very high speed
serial (rather than parallel, hence "one bit") conversion. For some
reason (perhaps some conversion weenie could enlighten us) this
technology seems to have become more cost/performance effective.
Maybe it's easier to make the clock 18 times as fast than to make the
circuitry 18 times as wide?
len.
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| 2656.2 | All I Know... | COMET::MESSAGE | You can't dust for vomit | Tue Jun 04 1991 16:08 | 12 |
I asked the same question a while ago, Karl, in another note, which
specifically asked about one manufacturer's product for reliability.
I'll tell you what, my impression of the 1-bit players I heard was
that, using "the same chip set", the Sony implementation was grainy,
and the Rotel (Phillips chips, etc.) was warm and "tuby" sounding.
The actual sound of the CD's I tried was much better thatn say, the
Denon 1560, etc.
FWIW,
Bill Message
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