Is the DAC module AK4497 a substantial/moderate upgrade to AK4493?

[Miska]

11 hours ago, barrows said:

BTW, if you are interested in the performance of the AKM chips with DSD, note that they perform better with DSD 256 than they do with DSD 512, this is noted right in their data sheets, noise and distortion performance suffers with DSD 512 input, so I would suggest sending them DSD 256 max, and not bothering with 512.

 

Good side of that is that my EC modulators can be run only up to DSD256 with current hardware. So you gain optimal performance with the combination.

 

 

P.S. I still need to get a DSD512 capable DAC with AKM chip so that I could check this difference myself.