Popular Post opus101 Posted April 9, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 9, 2019 9 hours ago, ferenc said: An extremely unique feature of the Fifth Element / Fifth Force is its use of an input buffer stage for the incoming digital signal, using an EF800 valve. Audio Note (UK) was the first company in the world to commercially implement such an arrangement, and it is one of the many technical achievements found in the Fifth Element / Fifth Force that pushes the performance of this Digital to analogue Converter beyond the threshold previously thought possible for such a device or digital audio technology in general." Presumably the 'extremely unique feature' here is simply the use of an EF800 valve in this application. AMR beat AN to it it seems as the now-fairly-long-in-the-tooth DP-777 also had a valve to buffer the S/PDIF signal : https://superphonica.com/all-products/components-digital/digital-to-analog-converters-dac/amr-digital-processor-777-se/ Lebouwsky and ThenewGearPPK 2 Link to comment
opus101 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 I can only see a marketing advantage myself, in that its different for the sake of being different. Link to comment
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