Can HiFiMAN’s new flagship desktop DAC/Amplifier improve over its predecessor? We’ll find out soon. HIFIMAN today announced the EF1000DAC ($15,000), a new reference desktop DAC/amplifier featuring the ...

Combining PWM with a small R-2R ladder improves both. It reduces PWM ripple significantly and increases the DAC’s resolution. In this Design Idea, an eight-resistor array and three output pins ...

Astell&Kern’s A&futura SE300 DAP utilizes an R-2R Ladder DAC and looks to be an ideal match for the new A&K AURA IEMs that are also making their debut at High-End Munich 2023. Astell&Kern made its ...

Making sound with digital logic usually calls for a Digital to Analog converter. Building one can be very simple, and the sound quality out of an R-2R Ladder is actually pretty good. In the last ...

In this series of DAC Basics, we start out by briefly discussing three architectures (Figure 1). This will give us a good frame of reference as we work through the critical digital-to-analog converter ...

With modern microcontrollers, the process of interfacing with the analogue world is easy. Simply enable the on-board DAC or ADC, and talk to the world. If you’ve ever done this with a slightly older ...

Sometimes it seems as though digital designers get all of the attention. In all of the excitement surrounding "gigaFLOPS," "22 nm," and such, there's still one crumb of comfort for we non-digital ...