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The DAC 2.1x is an excellent DAC that uses the classic AD1865 DAC chip. The Signature version brings with it upgraded components including Tantalum resistors in selected locations.Īudio Note Dac 1.1X/II Digital to Analogue Convertor: £ POA at manufacturers requestĪudio Note Dac 1.1X/II Signature Digital to Analogue Convertor: £ POA at manufacturers request The DAC1.1X/II is the most affordable DAC in the Audio Note range to use the AD1865 convertor chip. It is available with either a silver aluminium or a black acrylic fascia, or an all white chassis and is just 30cm wide.Īs you’d expect from Audio Note this is a hugely entertaining convertor, brimming with energy and involvement yet not lacking resolution, making it a tremendous addition to many systems - if you’re not already converted to the benefits of the Audio Note 1x oversampling designs you really must hear how this can transform your system - we’re confident it will be far more musical than almost any ‘conventional’ upsampling or multi oversampling digital front end, almost regardless of cost.Īudio Note DAC 0.1x Digital to Analogue Convertor: £ POA at manufacturers requestĪudio Note DAC 1.1X/II and DAC 1.1X/II Signature It even has a USB input (as well as the standard coaxial phono input) for use with computers. The output stage uses a sub miniature 6111WA triode valve, with high quality parts including beyschlag resistors and tin foil paper in oil capacitors.
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The DAC 0.1x is the new entry level DAC from Audio Note, as you’d expect from audio Note there’s no digital filtering and no oversampling used with its TDA 1543 DAC chip. Rega DAC- R digital to analogue convertor: £629.00 The supplied remote control, pictured above, provides remote input switching, switching of the digital filters is possible remotely if the optional (£85) Solaris remote control is used. Two Wolfson WM8742 DACs are used with a class A biased discrete output stage. There are also 3 user selectable digital filters.Ĭonnections include two coaxial inputs, two toslink optical inputs and an asynchronous 44.1kHz to 192kHz 24bit USB input for use with computers (using a PLL based clock for low jitter signal recovery) which is isolated to prevent coupling of noise from the switch mode power supplies used in computers. I do like AudioNote stuff, but I think its massively overpriced for what it is, and the whole 'upgrade ladder' system they have created just stinks of out of control capitalism.The Rega DAC- R features a 24- bit 32 to 192K digital to analogue converter and in many ways is an enhanced version of the digital stages of the Saturn CD player, with elements taken from their range topping Isis CD player.Īs you’d expect of Rega it has a sophisticated power supply with separate feeds for the various stages to ensure noise is minimised (even to the extent that digital and analogue circuits are supplied by different transformer windings.
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I agree, but you are talking almost a £2000+ price difference between say the Orchid and a Dac 2.1.you could actually buy a decent car with the difference :). But it does depend how much you want to spend for what depending on the rest of your kit might well be experienced as a relatively modest performance gain. It's always been my view that it's the PSU and output stage that matters in a DAC. Considerably more sophisticated than the MHDT. There is a big difference between the power supplies and in particular the output stage of the MHDT dacs and the Audio Note kit from 2.1x and above, which use output transformers and are, in effect, switchless versions of the output stage of the AN range of preamps. I had a Havana, 10+ years ago now, it was my first non-oversampling DAC and ultimately set me off on the Audio Note path (certainly beat the much more expensive Chord DAC64 I had before it), but I can't say I'd put it in the same bracket as any of the Audio Note gear. I dont think the couple of grand separating them was noticeable. I had a great MHDT Orchid, I compared them with a few Audionotes around the same price tag, and the MHDT was much nicer to me.