Popular Post ecwl Posted May 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 20, 2021 I have to admit I’m very confused by this discussion. Granted, we have no idea what Denafrips Ares is doing in it’s implementation of NOS R2R playback. But I see lots of people getting upset over NOS R2R not being truly R2R. But I’ve mentioned in other posts before that many DSD playback is not truly DSD either. And it seems that nobody gets very upset about that and vigorously defend it as “normal”. To clarify, almost all “true” DSD playback is actually DSD with shift register with multiple elements. So technically, you’re not hearing “the original DSD” signal because of the multiple elements with shift register. And people tell me that’s normal and that’s still true DSD. Let’s imagine Denafrips NOS also uses a shift register system for playback with say 16 R2R DACs all shifting at 16fs for 44.1kHz so you’re getting 16 R2R DACs all playing NOS except they’re all shifted by 705.6kHz = 1.4ms. To me, that’s still NOS (albeit with a type of filtering of some sort, which you’ll always need with NOS DACs, usually with an analog filter) So how exactly is that different than a 2.822MHz DSD with 32-element shift register playback? Are we going to have people start demanding that their DACs be 1-element DSD DACs or else, their DSD DACs aren’t pure? That said, maybe my understanding of NOS R2R DACs and DSD DACS are too elementary so perhaps somebody with more insights can explain to me the difference? The Computer Audiophile and sonodynesrp205 1 1 Link to comment
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