The notion of planned obsolescence, or the practice of designing products so they have a limited effective lifespan, is at one time, something that only Japanese multinational household appliances companies used to do. But no longer. Now, even North American audio companies seem to be copying that too. But is this insidious act deliberately limiting the life of products and services going to be a bad mistake?
Case in point:
The launch of EMM Lab DA2 which will support native 2xDSD and the announcement that latest firmware update will only take all current product up to as high as up sampling to 2xDSD and no native double DSD support.
Price: $25,000.00
Will emm lab use "next generation" thingy as an excuse to halt further software developments on their dac2x that will allow it to directly receives dsd128 and up sampling to 10xdsd?
Your guess is as good as mine.
It is not the first time they'd done it either.
The original XDS1 has been denied all support to bring it up to spec as the mk II version.
Case in point:
The launch of EMM Lab DA2 which will support native 2xDSD and the announcement that latest firmware update will only take all current product up to as high as up sampling to 2xDSD and no native double DSD support.
Price: $25,000.00
Will emm lab use "next generation" thingy as an excuse to halt further software developments on their dac2x that will allow it to directly receives dsd128 and up sampling to 10xdsd?
Your guess is as good as mine.
It is not the first time they'd done it either.
The original XDS1 has been denied all support to bring it up to spec as the mk II version.
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