To dCS or to Sonore...To Bridge or to Rendu?

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On 2/13/2018 at 8:02 AM, Cyrus said:

@Cooler@Raimund Heubel @firedog

I really wanted to give the dCS NB a go, but received a Signature Rendu SE by mistake (long story). It was (is) impressive in what it did for my system. The Signature Rendu SE replaced 2 power supplies and the ultraRendu and isoRegen as well as the cabling associated with them.

 

Great info as I am in a similar situation. To be clear, in your original post you were using the microrendu but moved to the ultrarendu correct? And the urendu + LPS1 + HDplex PSU were bested by the Sig Rendu SE correct?

 

 

 

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Thanks very much. I'm debating to move to the Signature Rendu SE or move to the DCS NB. I haven't seen any comparisons but my gut says the DCS is better but also more $.

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I would argue more don't have dual AES inputs than do. I'm not arguing that dual AES is better or not but other than TotalDAC, Esoteric (which I believe is proprietary anyway), other? How may other major companies implement dual AES?

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25 minutes ago, Cooler said:

You can use just one.

 

Sorry, but you're missing my point - you stated, " dCS has doubled AES output, which is very common standard for almost every DAC. " which is a false statement.

 

2nd statement you made above, "You can use just one". Yes, but that's a separate (albeit related) topic. 2 AES has the benefit of higher bandwidth / dual signal paths. For example, the DCS NB with 1 AES =  PCM at up to 24 bit 192kS/s or DSD/64, dual AES = PCM at up to 384kS/s, DSD/64 & DSD/128.