Wadia 6

Jon Q

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Dear Sir´s
I have a varied collection of CD's, and I'm about to get a Wadia 6 for a great price.
It will be used as transport. The dac is external.
The question is, if using the dac of the wadia 6 is it 18 or 20 bit? The manual says it is 20 bit, but the chip-set DAC is 4x AD1864N-K, 18bit, there are also some versions with 4x PCM63K, 20 bit.
Any reason ,for this?

Jon
 

jturbo

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Dear Sir´s
I have a varied collection of CD's, and I'm about to get a Wadia 6 for a great price.
It will be used as transport. The dac is external.
The question is, if using the dac of the wadia 6 is it 18 or 20 bit? The manual says it is 20 bit, but the chip-set DAC is 4x AD1864N-K, 18bit, there are also some versions with 4x PCM63K, 20 bit.
Any reason ,for this?

Jon

I dont recall any of the old wadia units supporting anything more than 16/44 or 48 formats. Maybe the extra bits were there fir the digital volume control.
 

BlueFox

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I suspect the DAC will only deal with whatever bit length is input to it. Obviously, it can’t add bits.
 

retired farmer

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Dear Sir´s
I have a varied collection of CD's, and I'm about to get a Wadia 6 for a great price.
It will be used as transport. The dac is external.
The question is, if using the dac of the wadia 6 is it 18 or 20 bit? The manual says it is 20 bit, but the chip-set DAC is 4x AD1864N-K, 18bit, there are also some versions with 4x PCM63K, 20 bit.
Any reason ,for this?

Jon
Old thread but did you get the wadia 6? I bought one with the intention of using it for my bedroom system. I personally didn't realize any of them had anything but 63k dacs anyhow did you try the player by it self? I really enjoy mine I also have a krell kps20i that has 63k dacs in it and had an enlighten audio design dac that had them as well I have always liked the 63k. My favorite players most of them had the ultra analog dacs in them. My maim system has a sonic frontier transport and dac 3 with that chip set. If you bought the wadia I would be interested in k owing what you thought of the player by itself.

Regards
 

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