![]() ![]() ![]() 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.
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