Accuphase DAC-60
 

https://www.audiounion.jp/ct/detail/new/182338/

New plug-in DAC from Accuphase. Looks like it's using ESS chip vs AKM chip from the DAC-50.

Now there’s the question, keep the DAC50 card or go to the DAC60
I am very happy with the results of the DAC50 card!

I have been contemplating getting the DAC50. Maybe I pick up a DAC60 or find a nice price on the DAC50 [emoji847]

https://www.memesmonkey.com/images/m...5f1228d84.jpeg

:D

I just spoke with an Accuphase dealer in Montreal about buying the E-280 with the DAC-50. I was informed that the DAC-50 was no longer available. When I asked about a possible replacement, I was told there was nothing forthcoming… which I found odd.

Leave it to AA to be the best source of up to date information!:banana:

https://www.accuphase.co.jp/model/dac-60.html

NEW Accuphase dac-60 brochure jpn
https://www.accuphase.co.jp/cat/dac-60.pdf

https://www.accuphase.com/model/dac-60.html

NEW Accuphase dac-60 brochure eng
https://www.accuphase.com/cat/dac-60_en.pdf

Is the DAC-60 an improvement, or just a replacement because the AKM DAC used in the DAC-50 is no longer available due to the fire which destroyed the AKM factory last year? The supported sampling rates seem to be the same for both boards.

According to Accuphase, the DAC-60 has 3 improvements vs the DAC-50:

1. The DAC is asynchronous.

2. Noise is 10% lower.

3. Supports markerless DSD* (sort of like native DSD instead of DoP)

*Markerless DSD is a DSD transport which “does not burden the data stream with the DSD Markers that are inserted into the data in the case of DoP."