Dac from mid range to cost no object


As i understand it a DAC does either red book cd well or Sacd well.  If you pick one you loose quality on the other? Is that right? Is there a DAC that does both real well and what price range are we talking about?
Thank you for your info.

68pete

Showing 1 response by wisnon

I think you mean RBCD and DSD??


If so, you have Dacs like Lampi that have separate engines for DSD and PCM. In fact my Dac has 2 dsd engines and one PCM engine.

The Lampizator Atlantic has DSD256 and R2R ladder PCM for about $4,500 retail (single ended version). Not a single Dac chip Inside it.


SaCD needs to be ripped to the DSD64 file using an older PS3 ripper or any of 4 relatively cheap Blu-Ray players with the mediatech chip. Details over at Computeraudiophile forum.