Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
But not as cool-retro looking as big rows of discrete resistors though... unless it were made to be so... a resistor network on sapphire - under glass... a Chord fish-eye-magnifier-window maybe, for desktops?
I have to admit that I would like one of today's ultimate metal foil R-2R DACs... saw while looking for R-2R networks, dreams... http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/totaldac3/1.html
From a review of the Rega Planet, circa '98', still a fitting statement today:
"Imperfect sound forever" "And don't forget that CD is an imperfect system. Never mind "perfect sound forever." We're stuck with imperfect sound—if not forever, then for many years to come.Roy Gandy told me, "With engineering CD players, it's a science and an art, because the whole system is relatively imperfect in itself. Often, real technical improvements on paper can take you backward in sound quality."
https://www.stereophile.com/content/rega-planet-cd-player-page-3
Integrated resistor arrays are not inherently better or worse than discrete resistors. In the context of the RDAC, the price point made it unrealistic to source sufficiently wide and precise integrated arrays. Otherwise, you are absolutely right that integrated arrays have better matching and can be a great solution for an R-2R DAC.