Weiss Minerva Dac

Wish someone from the Industry could chime in on the same!

Below is a few threads talking about the same.

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread/t-87659.html

All conclude its RARE or maybe non-existent to transmit 192K/24Bits on S/PDIF perhaps I2s it is possible too.

Theoretical limit of S/PDIF is 25MBPS so a 192K 24Bit signal should be about in the range of 12MEGS which is on the border of supporting it after taking into account transmission loss. I don't know how the STACK is designed (maybe unfair to compare) but in basic networking(TC/PIP) there's a 70% transmission loss!!!

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread/t-87659.html

Hopefully we have more educated people tell us more about it.

Best Regards,

Satyam Bachani.

What I am interested in learning is if any person has compared a Weiss DAC against a 'respected' CD Player & can write some comments on it.
I am more interested to learn how a CD Player performs against a computer / firwire DAC.
Thanks.

I think there's some bad info above. For example, the RR HRx recordings are 24/176 and they can be fed with a single AES/EBU cable into a DAC such as the Berkeley.

Also, iTunes does support 24-bit word length.

Also, 24/192 is possible via USB 2.0. I don't believe anyone is doing it yet, but Empirical Audio is planning to. Will require two clocks.

If what Drubin says is correct, then USB / Single Digital Cable from Transport to DAC should be possible for 24/192.

Is that so ?