I purchased a D-1 about 2 weeks ago. If you do a search on this forum, it has been previously mentioned.
It is quite impressive!
The Bob Katz review:
https://positive-feedback.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/imersiv-d1-dac/
New Type of DAC
I just read about the new Immersiv D-1 DAC. From what I have read it has a tremendous amount of dynamics compared to traditional DAC's. It actually has two DAC's the cover lower db and upper db and then it is put together somehow with DSP. It sounds pretty cool just want to here if anyone else has read about it or actually listened to it?
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The issue here is that Bob did not reveal what "Standard DAC" he was comparing with the D-1 |
*Any* existing 24 bit DAC (theoretically 144db dynamic range) in existence (with (x1) company exception) has 'internal noise' that limits it to no better than about 120db dynamic range due to the noise floor. If you look at the 'Bob Katz' review measurement comparison (between this 'Standard DAC' and the D-1) look at his figures 6 <-> 9 and read the text in that area, you will see that it has specs (min >150db, closer to +160db) that are many times better than any existing DAC. I do not know what his 'standard DAC reference' is either... The argument now could be made that since the best recorded dynamic range (theoretically 144db @24 bit) that has been recorded in the past (and now), why in the world would you want to spend the extra $$ for +150db dynamic range? |
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