Non-oversampling DAC
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In very nice condition! Original box and packing ARE included. Interior pix is stock.
Circa 2018. Made in The Netherlands. A 'baby' sized DAC with excellent performance.
While most DACs are happy to use off-the-shelf Delta-Sigma chips from the likes of ESS Sabre or AKM and add plenty of additional processing in the form of oversampling and digital filtering, Metrum has gone down a different route. The Flint, as with the Dutch brand's other designs, uses multi-bit resistor ladder (R2R) DAC circuitry with no oversampling and just a simple first-order analogue filter operating at around 70kHz to avoid any issues with amplification. Metrum says that the use of a true multi-bit DAC and the lack of additional processing result in improved timing and phase behaviour over the industry's usual digital design approach.
What Hi-Fi? (UK) thought this unit had a solid and punchy presentation; Good detail with a Pleasing build quality.
Impedance 100ohms
Outputs 2x RCA (stereo)
Inputs Optical (limited to 16-bit/96kHz), coaxial
Frequency response 1Hz – 65kHz
Dimensions (hwd) 12 x 12 x 3.5cm
Weight 0.42kg
