Thread: Accuphase G-18
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Old 10-08-2021, 08:04 AM
meltemi meltemi is offline
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Originally Posted by Nascimento View Post
I listen to a lot of vinyl records, I even just bought an Accuphase C-47 phono stage, I don't see much sense in passing the vinyl through the DG-58 digital, I'm going to keep looking for the G-18!
The sense is getting access to digital room correction.
Earlier I already recommended DG-68 (not DG-58).
Reasons:
1) Digital units (e.g. DG-68) are more precise and consistent than a 36year old analog unit (G-18) with its ageing analog components.
2) The ADC/DACs and the correction of DG-68 work with a high resolution of 24bit/352.8kHz (also called DXD), so there will not be any audible signal deterioration.
3) DG-68 uses one 8ch ES9028Pro per stereo channel as DAC and also features Accuphase ANCC.
As such its DAC quality is superior to DAC-50 with its 2ch AK4490EQ per stereo channel and without ANCC.
You can also use a DG-68 as DAC for digital sources (except USB).

Your system would then look as follows:
analog: analog source > C-47 > DG-68 > E-800
digital: DP-570 as transport > HS-Link 2 > DG-68 > E-800 (DP-570 uses half of an ES9028Pro, i.e. 4ch, per stereo channel, DG-68 uses a full ES9028Pro, i.e. 8ch, per stereo channel.)

Martin

Last edited by meltemi; 10-14-2021 at 05:33 PM.
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