IMO the DAC chip they use is transparent and is not a limiting factor in the performance. It is inexpensive to produce a transparent DAC chip nowadays as long as tooling allows it to be made in big numbers.
An outstanding DAC well engineered and produced with state of the art tooling will be cheaper than a DAC which is less well engineered and produced in smaller quantities.
It is years since the DAC chip itself was a limiting factor in sound quality. IMHO.
I have had an 8 channel ADC/DAC for 5 or 6 years where the input is audibly indistinguishable from the output, ie the mic feed and output of the recorder sound identical.
Nobody I have tried it on has been able to hear any difference between it and a straightforward interconnect, including me, and I am very fussy about recorder's sound quality.
An outstanding DAC well engineered and produced with state of the art tooling will be cheaper than a DAC which is less well engineered and produced in smaller quantities.
It is years since the DAC chip itself was a limiting factor in sound quality. IMHO.
I have had an 8 channel ADC/DAC for 5 or 6 years where the input is audibly indistinguishable from the output, ie the mic feed and output of the recorder sound identical.
Nobody I have tried it on has been able to hear any difference between it and a straightforward interconnect, including me, and I am very fussy about recorder's sound quality.
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