Marantz DAC hardware

[Phil J N.Z.]

Has anyone any idea what DAC is fitted in the Cinema 40 and Cinema 50 AVR's, I cannot find any information on this anywhere and my only other option is a Yamaha RX-A6A and that has 2 ESS Saber DAC's.

 

[everettT]

Has anyone any idea what DAC is fitted in the Cinema 40 and Cinema 50 AVR's, I cannot find any information on this anywhere and my only other option is a Yamaha RX-A6A and that has 2 ESS Saber DAC's.

The amplifier sections would be more of a limiting factor, but based on review, neither are going to be audibly an issue.

 

[lovinthehd]

@PENG is your best bet for chip knowledge. I wouldn't make a decision merely on the make of chip, it's just not particularly important and wouldn't be an audible difference.

 

[TLS Guy]

@PENG is your best bet for chip knowledge. I wouldn't make a decision merely on the make of chip, it's just not particularly important and wouldn't be an audible difference.

I would have said that once, but my view has changed and I don't think that is true in the spatial arena especially.

 

[lovinthehd]

I would have said that once, but my view has changed and I don't think that is true in the spatial arena especially.

Yeah, you get a lot of things wrong, though, too. Wasn't it more determined much less likely a dac particularly vs higher processing capabilities for dsp?

 

[m. zillch]

Competent DACs, with reasonably low noise and distortion (which I've seen executed for as little as under $10 at retail), designed to properly provide accurate rather than gimmicked or "enhanced" sound (which they may lie about "not doing"), using comparable/sensible filter settings that don't skew the audible band, played at precisely matched volume levels (as determined by instrumentation and calibration tones, not "winging it"), sound the same. [That is to say they are audibly transparent.]