Gieseler Audio Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 This new chip is getting rave reviews so I thought I would give it a whirl. Just ordered some pcb's so I should have one up & running in a couple of weeks. I will report back with more info & photos once I get the first one built. It is quite exciting as it looks like it will handle DSD in hardware mode which is the way I will be running it. 8 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gieseler Audio Posted November 13, 2023 Author Share Posted November 13, 2023 Well it was definitely quite challenging hand soldering the new ESS chip Getting too old for this 4 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizaudio Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 On 14/11/2023 at 9:54 AM, Gieseler Audio said: Well it was definitely quite challenging hand soldering the new ESS chip Getting too old for this No s#$t you have skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizaudio Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 Multichannel?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gieseler Audio Posted November 18, 2023 Author Share Posted November 18, 2023 (edited) They do make lots of multi channel chips but this particular one is only two channels. If this one works out well I may investigate a multi channel version. Edited December 1, 2023 by Gieseler Audio 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gieseler Audio Posted December 6, 2023 Author Share Posted December 6, 2023 Well after a little tech support help from ESS the prototype is up & running. Sounds very good too & handles PCM up to 768K and DSD 64 Next step is to do some critical listening comparisons with the AKM and TDA Kompakt's. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenticularis Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Clay, As the owner of Kopmpakt S/N 0001 (AKM of course), I shall await your tests with interest! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vizion Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Wow, will this run in NOS mode ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gieseler Audio Posted April 15 Author Share Posted April 15 No - all ESS Sabre chips have built in oversampling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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