LJM CS4398 Zhaolu D1.3 transformer + chassis + connectors And by building this thing.Īfter exactly one month after paying the money, the DAC kit made its way from Hong Kong to my residence in Singapore as this pile of parts. But are those measurements real, or did they (or he) measure something else then post it as this DAC's? Lets find out. Ok, so 0.001% is good, good for an external DAC (ASUS is spoiling the sound card market), very good for an external DAC board kit that costs $30 USD. In the same way the government is evil because he banned the sales of melamine-tainted milk so the producers are going to starve. Well, I can't say no, because I am spoiling their sales.
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To put things into perspective, EMU0404 (both card and USB) are rated around there (and measures around there), Cambridge DacMagic Plus is rated <0.001% (and should probably hit that if not better), Audioengine D1 is rated <0.002%, NuForce uDAC-2 is rated _ THD+N (see it on their website), Fiio E17 is rated <0.007% for DAC, ODAC work-in-progress does around 0.003% right now apparently, and the many others without manufacturer-rated specs and the many many with manufacturer-rated specs but does not hit even close when measured which I will not post the links to their measurements or people will again think I have evil agendas. So, when a designer of a cheap DAC publishes measured results (or so I think) saying 0.001% THD, I get excited. Hope you are as open-minded towards statistical variance as you are towards the effects of audio "tweaks".) (Achieved without even turning on my amp. And many products made by obscure companies fall under the "hey lets swap the op-amp for something with 0.00003% THD and replace the DAC chip with better one with -132dB SNR and don't result in any difference because the entire product does worse than -110dB SNR 0.002% THD anyway, but I'm still going to hear the difference because of placebo and I don't AB X for statistically significant results". Ok, so chip specs are rarely actually hit in reality when you put the chip into a badly-design piece of junk. (Real equipment worth real money designed for real performance by real engineers often hit that low or better, that's why they use even better DAC chips.)
(Not as good as STX and its PCM1792A duh) Chip-specs-wise, it does -120dB dynamic range and -107dB (0.00045%) TDH+N, which is pretty good already and you rarely see even expensive gear hit that good. Xonar DX uses CS4398, and you know how good it is. Sure other companies have even better stuff, like AD1955, PCM1792A, and Sabre, but CS4398 is a good DAC.
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