Schiit Bifrost Multibit option

A correction in that list of R2R Ladder Multibit dacs.

Delete the EMM labs, it's delta sigma.
What should have been in it's place is the DaVinci from Harmonic Light.

Cheers George

Delta Sigma type dacs (redbook dsd, hirez, sacd ect)
vs
R2R Ladder Multibit dacs (mostly redbook only, there are a couple of very expensive exceptions).

This guy hits the nail on the head for me, there are many others also that delve into it far to complex for these pages.
If you can't understand it don't worry go down to the look and it may start to make some sense.

http://www.mother-of-tone.com/conversion.htm

Cheers George

Wow... I don't know why, but I actually understood what he was talking about.
I guess it's true, an old dude can learn if he obsesses and reads enough about a subject.
I will be sending my Bifrost in for the upgrade very soon.

Looks like Bruno Putzey of Hypex Class D amp fame has gone to designing a discrete Multibit dac (called the Mola Mola) that uses 32 x 1 Bit dacs per channel, that is capable of doing dsd as well as Redbook.

Production board
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LNvVXCqEtEU/hqdefault.jpg

I think this was the prototype
http://puremusicgroup.com/cart/images/uploads/Moladac_proto-web.jpg

Cheers George

Thanks for the link George...I read through it, and aside from the fact that the main crux of his analysis is to ultimately sell you one of his products, the real issue I have is that he, like so many before him, absolutely cannot get his point across without resorting to banal hyperbole. For example, someone, anyone, please tell me the name of the Delta-Sigma dac you listened to that made cymbals sound like someone crinkling a piece of paper. And while you're at it, tell us the amp and speakers used, and whether you were sitting in a normal room or buried 10 feet underground in a wooden box with Uncle Ben's rice stuffed in your ears, when you heard a D-S dac make a cymbal sound like crinkling paper. I mean, come on...