12-Feb-2021, 20:31
(11-Feb-2021, 11:25)quagga Wrote: The second change is the internal DAC capability, it was stated even for the Reactors to be 24bits/192kHz, and now it is 24bits/96kHz.
But why? What is the use of 96kHz when your DOS (DOS2) is rated 48kHz. And what was the kHz of the earlier operating system (DOS1) while the DAC was 192kHz.
Everybody seems to forget there is SAM processing at the end of the chain (you can see it in Roon screenshots). So it is quite possible that SAM operates at 96 kHz even if the signal is 48 kHz, and that would explain why a higher frequency DAC is used.
I'll take a risk of being shooed by all the audiophiles here, but it occurs to me that since SAM does (and always did) something absolutely unknown and potentially destructive to all those precious bits and kHz (but creating the "Devialet sound" in the process), how much does the original pristine hi def really matter in such a system?
