I am wondering if any of you have had experience with it would chime in on it. I have been using it for months since getting my system out of mothballs. I have nothing to compare it to. It is old, but was well regarded. Still a good DAC, in short ?
Thank you for getting back to me. My model is the one before that it's the "bitstream" it uses the, I believe they call it alpha sigma processor, and then the next one, your, the bidat uses the multi-bit or laddered processor - if I am getting the technologies correct. The streaming device I use and my CD player are just 16/44 so if this is a solid 16/44 DAC I'll stick with it but if it's antiquated sound-wise I want something different I just don't know the answer to that and don't really have the opportunity to try something without buying itI've got a bidat that I had fully modified by John Wright about 15 years as does my brother. Mine is sitting in a closet since being replaced by a musetec 005. My brother retired his a few months ago when he bought an EMM. The bidat is a fabulous, liquid, analog sounding DAC that was way ahead of its time. There are still a fair number of people who feel it is still a state of the art redbook DAC. My feeling is that it is an excellent old redbook DAC that has since been superceded by newer DACs.
if you check Impulse response of DACs you can see some DACs have perfect transient response and some other not. Optimising for having perfect Time and frequency response is not easy.I've got a bidat that I had fully modified by John Wright about 15 years as does my brother. Mine is sitting in a closet since being replaced by a musetec 005. My brother retired his a few months ago when he bought an EMM. The bidat is a fabulous, liquid, analog sounding DAC that was way ahead of its time. There are still a fair number of people who feel it is still a state of the art redbook DAC. My feeling is that it is an excellent old redbook DAC that has since been superceded by newer DACs.
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