Awesome thanks for the heads up, Reinhard.
Been waiting for this for a while now.
How does it sound compared to the dddac1543? How many modules have you managed to stack so far?
Thanks again,
Tuyen
well, to be honest, it is much much much to early to make and/or expect serious results regarding the comparison between the two DACs at the moment... my 120 DDDAC 1543 to my ears is as close to perfection for 16 bit as I have ever listened to... and the same is valid for the single chip DDDAC 1784 for 24 bit...
what you want to know is clear, that's exactly what I want to know as well, and as quickly as possible, but we will still have to be patient for the results for quite a while because
1. it really would be hardly meaningful to compare at this moment a completely and on the long run burnt in 120 chip 16 bit DAC against a single chip 24 bit running in 16 bit mode just finding together...
2. the different adjustment of input/output levels of the individual DACs (1,2 volt with the 24 bit and 1,6 volt with the 16 bit - which should be some 2 volts) still have to be built... Doede has just finished to build this for himself at his home, but till now we have not yet had the chance to test it exept for some single tracks... we will have to wait till this is burnt in and then listen to much longer and much more intensively
3. except Doede we (Klaus, Bernd and me) have just started with one deck... we have already listened to Doede's four deck DAC, but not yet burnt in, and not yet harmonised, just to see if the multiplication of the chips lead to the same or similar effects as with the multiplying of the 16 bit chips, and yes, they do, but different, in any case that way, that there is no way back... the same here: much to early to report seriously...
but to give you an impression: there are indeed severe positive ameliorations in sound reproduction, and to my ears they all tend without exception in the right direction, and the best that I ever listened to is indeed Neil Young Live at Massey Hall, 24 bit 192 kHz... Massey Hall is in my room, and Neil singing 3 meters in front of me, and I can "see" the single strings of his guitar and the keys of his piano as narrow as they are in nature, and the best, his voice when speaking and singing is only some ten-fifteen cm in diametre, there is a dramatic gain in focus, which is simply incredible, as is with all the other instruments, standing side by side, no longer intermingling in the reproduction picture, and the high resolution hand clapping of the audience is simply frighteningly realistic... and we are really grateful not having at all any problems in getting it as "loud" as in reality... but this process is still not yet totally finished and of course will be closely observed...
all in all this is definitely without any doubt the right way to go for us, and once listened to there is no way back for us... I am just burning in that what I was able to get so far - please keep in mind that it all has to be built at the moment by Doede himself in parallel for Klaus, Bernd, himself and me - and what I have is the most basic version, one "single" board, as to be seen on the picture above, with the two Mundorf Caps, it happens to be exactly that one on the picture which some time ago still was Doede's deck till he completed his box that he built for himself for fullfilling his personal and specific needs...
what I can already tell without any overemphasizing after some 120 hours in which the "wonder" is burning in and finding itself together is: everything is more and better than I anticipated in my imaginations - the naturalness and reality in sound is very narrowly oszillating around the border of perfection, a level that I could not imagine being reachable at all and easily the supremely best that I ever listened to, and there is absolutely no doubt this will stay as is, and it will be utmost fun to experiment with all the planned ameliorations in the future, i.e. parallelising chips, i.e. more decks, separating of the 5 volt from the USB connection, and yes, even getting rid of the caps within the signal path with the new Sowters (see his homepage), which Doede has had being built according to his specifications... but I am not yet able to comment on these things seriously (although these things all sound "better" right from the start)...
and we are very glad that all these things seem to reach "perfection" just right in time as we will have our next big session at the beginning of december not only with Jean Hiraga but also with Shinichi Tanaka from Goto Unit in Japan together with two japanese pianists, and from what I heard they are just discussing if Seiya Goto himself (84 years) will be able to accompany them... that indeed would be a sensation !!!