We are convinced it will give you many hours of
listening pleasure.
Digital methods of recording music have many advantages,
such as very low noise, high dynamic range and fast
searching but, until now, you may have been disappointed
by the sound quality when you play digital recordings.
At TAG McLaren Audio, we understand exactly what needs
to be done to get the best sound from a digital recording.
accurate reproduction
Digital recording is quite insensitive to
data losses, such as a scratch on a disc or
a drop out on a tape. However, rebuilding
the recorded music exactly, even from a
perfect digital recording, is a complex task
which is often not appreciated and has only
recently been fully understood.
very high resolution
The digital signal represents the original
music as rapidly changing groups of bits
(i.e. the ‘zeros’ and ‘ones’ understood by
computers). More bits in each group allow
a more accurate representation of the
music information during its processing.
The DAC20 uses 24 bits (eight bits more
than a CD’s original recording), which
results in higher signal resolution and
more precise sound details.
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Thank you for purchasing the TAG McLaren Audio digital to analogue converter DAC20.
digital filtering
By its nature, digital data generates
unwanted, high-frequency noise when it is
converted back to the analogue domain
(which is what our ears can hear). Even
though the noise frequency is way above the
threshold of human hearing, it has unpleasant
effects on the sound due to what audio
engineers call ‘intermodulation’.To remove
this noise, the DAC20 uses a digital filter
which is made more effective by
oversampling and noise shaping the data.
This technique reduces the high frequency
noise by using an 8 times digital
oversampling filter.The data from the filter is
further oversampled, using noise shaping, to
produce a 192 times single bit data stream
for conversion back to analogue.
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