Eastern Electric MiniMax DAC review from Dagogo& Stereomojo

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Re: Eastern Electric MiniMax DAC review from Dagogo& Stereomojo
« Reply #20 on: 19 Sep 2010, 08:24 pm »
Bill, I think you misunderstand me.  I'm not talking about the DAC chip used but the USB chip used.  A bunch of companies sell Tenor USB chip based 24/96 asynchronous USB converters/DAC's for couple hundred dollars, including Firestone Bravo, TeraDAc TeraLink, Audiotrak, etc.  All I'm saying is OEM cost differential between the Tenor USB chip and the current 16/44 USB chip implementation in EE DAC should not be insurmountable. 

Cypress USB chip combined with Xilinx FPGA running 24/96-192 asynch software is another good option, as used by M2Tech HiFace or Musiland. 

We computer audiophiles still long for that GREAT-sounding DAC with 24/96 asynch USB input at a great price, and I'm personally hoping the next Eastern Electric DAC will do that for us  :thumb:

Straight from the posted review:
 
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the EE DAC is limited to 16 bit/48 kHz signal input due to its use of the ubiquitous Burr Brown PCM2707 USB receiver chip. 
 
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Cheers,
Robin