ecoustics

HiFiMAN Introduces EF1000DAC Hymalaya Pro R-2R Ladder DAC for $15K

Can HiFiMAN’s new flagship desktop DAC/Amplifier improve over its predecessor? We’ll find out soon. HIFIMAN today announced the EF1000DAC ($15,000), a new reference desktop DAC/amplifier featuring the ...
EDN

Hybrid PWM/R2R DAC improves on both

Combining PWM with a small R-2R ladder improves both. It reduces PWM ripple significantly and increases the DAC’s resolution. In this Design Idea, an eight-resistor array and three output pins ...
ecoustics

Astell&Kern’s A&futura SE300 DAP Features A Very Unique DAC: High-End Munich 2023

Astell&Kern’s A&futura SE300 DAP utilizes an R-2R Ladder DAC and looks to be an ideal match for the new A&K AURA IEMs that are also making their debut at High-End Munich 2023. Astell&Kern made its ...
Electronic Design

Extract the Best AC Performance from Your Precision DAC

Sometimes it seems as though digital designers get all of the attention. In all of the excitement surrounding "gigaFLOPS," "22 nm," and such, there's still one crumb of comfort for we non-digital ...
EDN

DAC BASICS, Part 2: DAC Architectures

In this series of DAC Basics, we start out by briefly discussing three architectures (Figure 1). This will give us a good frame of reference as we work through the critical digital-to-analog converter ...