On the other hand, you also have CS46L41, which IVX could not get a datasheet on.
CIRRUS LOGIC CS4398 NWAVGUY DRIVERS
This seemed strange to me anyhow, but anyway, the drivers are commonly seen as ‘BRAVO-HD’ ASIO, and often badly customised. The SA9312, which SHDP uses, supports DSD256. He claimed at least that Savitech’s SA9302, which DC03/04 uses, doesn’t support DSD256, only DSD128. It’s common knowledge now, but IVX on diyaudio explained it really well. Given this detail, one can begin to understand why the Cirrus way may be equated to S-Master more than ESS. If you'd like to follow up with me at I'd be glad to provide additional technical information and see what we can do to answer your questions.
CIRRUS LOGIC CS4398 NWAVGUY PLUS
The hard task is designing the element architecture, plus hooking them up together in such a way as to make this work and at the same time, make sure the actual sound produced from the DAC is as good as possible. In addition the elements sequentially filter out the unwanted frequencies to stop them affecting the wanted audio frequencies. Regarding the 512 single-cell DAC elements that form the DAC architecture of the CS43130, they're designed in a sequential method so that each element uses a clean clock source as it's reference and doesn't inherit jitter from the previous element, so that by the end of the 512 element chain, the audio signal is clean. It's a support request form that gets channeled to a sales rep for follow up. It's always good to see discussion taking place! As you noted, the data sheet for this product is by request on our website, and we do that primarily because of competitive reasons. Thanks for your interest in the CS43130 hi-fi DAC. Cirrus has a product page but it has no detail either. I tried finding some information on the web but what I found was that “512 single-cell DACs” is simply a bit of investor bait. eg.Multiple level one bit DACs is also a method used in S-Master amps.īut someone said: where's the detail on the CS43130? “512 single-cell DACs” sounds like an interesting approach but there's no clue about how it actually works. I have heard some simple setups using separate dac amp that were remarkable good. Steinberg ur22 into schiit Magni2, very good tunes! Not sure what dac chip is in it and don't care, not great on headphones, though. I use an Audient ID14 on my desktop speakers and it is really good. Not sure what to recommend under $300 for headphones. Never heard the Asus but Schiits 4490 implementation left me not a fan. Yet, many dacs end up sounding similar on the lower end unless you do something quite different in implementation.īased on what I heard from the 4490 modi, I would not take the chance. So long story short, it really is about implementation. Yet hear one of the diy 4495 multiple chip implementations and you would not know they were related.Īs for the 4398, well same here, This dac: Warmish, a bit too soft in the mids smooth top and a bit veiled. Centrance, Schiit, JDS all sound somewhat similar. Generally attributed to many Chinese dacs, some better than others, then Resonessence goes and warms the crap out of it with very smooth up top, Ayre in the upgraded QB-9 uses ess9016 chip that does not have any of the "classic" ESS house sound.Īs for the 4490, same thing. Typical categorization is that it is clean but hashy up top. Dac chip sound signatures "can" sound similar and then again can sound nothing like a class or group of products that generally share a similar sound.Ĭase in point ESS 9018.