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624.0. "Burr-Brown DACs and ADCs" by 16514::MOELLER (The future isn't what it used to be.) Fri Jan 30 1987 15:41

    I'm a member of the Audio Engineering Society in tucson arizona.
    
    Last night we toured Burr-Brown Inc. in Tucson. B-B makes from 50
    to 80 percent of the DACs used in CD players.
    
    Most of the analog engineering was beyond me, speccing out OP amps.
    What I related to better was the presentation on DACs and ADCs,
    as I will soon own a sampling synthesizer. B-B management supply
    not only the large Japanese CD mfr's, but most of the sampling synth
    mfrs., Kurzweil, Roland, etc.
    
    One DAC that caught my eye is a new, unreleased 18bit DAC meant
    for extremely high-end CD players. That's a theoretical 106 DB,
    folks !
    
    karl moeller sws tucson az usa

    An 18 bit DAC, probably means that you can get 16 good bits!  :-)
    Seriously, was it monotonic with no missing codes?
    
    						-Dave