McIntosh D1100 Digital Preamplifier DAC Review
August 21, 2017 Comments Off on McIntosh D1100 Digital Preamplifier DAC Review
“The issue boils down to the fact that the DAC chip is normally muted until it receives non-silence data. But, this non-silence data can’t be just any non-silence data, it must be at a minimum volume level for the DAC to unmute. When the track reaches a certain volume level, the DAC unmutes and quickly fades-in to the music. In other words, the fade-in is triggered by a minimum amplitude, not by the start of a stream of USB data. Many DACs use a similar mute technique to reduce or eliminate pops on sample rate switches, but this is the only DAC I’ve seen that requires a minimum amplitude to unmute the volume.”

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