Again I respectfully disagree. In 15 years as a dCS owner I’ve never seen or received a communication on this topic from dCS directly. And if there were to be a survey, the results would likely only reflect the views of current dCS owners, not individuals who chose other DAC platforms because of missing features.
Regardless, it’s a standard feature on every high end DAC in the market now, including the new Varese, and so the requested clarity was simply: Is it technically possible for dCS to enable native DSD256 playback on the current (non-Varese) hardware?
Continued lack of comms from dCS on the topic suggests the answer is “No,” as you, Pete and others had indicated.
Sorry, I don’t quite follow; are you disagreeing that dCS knows better about their user base than you???
Anything is technically possible, given enough effort $$. So, I can imagine the reticences to give an absolute Yes/No answer. Plus I believe this is work-in-progress as has been stated by dCS quite public (albeit perhaps not on dcs.community forum).
As a 25 year previous owner of Naim I have derided them for years as they have continually stuck with these ancient chips and failed to innovate and push things forward (FPGA etc.).
My Naim CD players from the early 2000’s used these chips
I kid you not! It’s in the The Absolute Sound review from January 2021;
The DAC is a Texas Instruments Sigma-Delta type, with only a section of the DAC chip used. Wadax has replaced many of the DAC functions with its own circuitry.
It’s unclear which TI chip exactly is being used, but another source indicated to me it’s the same TI BB chip thats used in the $300 iFi Zen DAC Signature V2
What’s your point? That you think the performance of a DAC is primarily about the chip at the heart of it? You seem to be suggesting that the iFi Zen DAC Signature V2 must sound as good as the Wadax because it uses the same chip . Am I misinterpeting?
If you have some new insights into the Wadax platform/architecture, please share and I’d be happy to discuss. Otherwise, please feel free to interpret in any way you like
There is far more that makes a Vivaldi a Vivaldi, a Varese a Varese, etc than the processor at the heart of one of the boxes. Whatever your point was, it seems cheaply made!
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It’s in the The Absolute Sound review from January 2021;
. Am I misinterpeting?
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