DACs Deciphered: The 4 Major Types Explained | Moon Audio

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🎶 How do digital-to-analog converters work? We all know they convert your digital to analog. But how? Want to know about Ladder and R-2R DACs, Ring DACs, FPGA, chipsets like ESS, AKM, Cirrus Logic, Burr Brown, and more. What did I even just say? Check out our video to find out. 🎧✨

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*CHAPTERS*
0:00 | Spoiler Alert: Not All DACs are created equal...
1:50 | Off-the-Shelf DAC Chips
5:42 | R-2R, Ladder DACs
7:38 | Ring DACs
10:10 | FPGA DACs
12:24 | Verdict

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[jondu-sud]

Very helpful and above all neutral review of the mysterious world of DACs, thank you very much 😊

[pistonburner]

Walking under an R-2R DAC means bad luck.
If you love an album, put a Ring DAC on it.
Whenever I watch golf on TV, I run the audio through an FPGA DAC.

[carminedesanto]

GM ☕️
Currently enjoying the new Denafrips Ares 12-1 DAC feeding the Bryston BHA-1 ..juicing up LCDX 2021 ..and OMG 🥲
Have a great weekend.

[iamtesting]

I like teac's discrete DAC (one of the implementations of many FPGA based DAC)

[mikelaguirre]

No measurements to show the differences between this dacs?

[jayem]

Were you reading a teleprompter? No? My goodness. You really know what you’re talking about.
The Cayin ru7 is supposed to be very nice. Wish it had COAX input then it could be connected to a streamer.

[amanieux]

$200 digital usb cable ? Really come on

[michaelwright]

It is just 1's and 0's, right? ;-)