Resonessence Labs Invicta $3.995 USD

• ESS SABRE32 24/192kHz DAC chip
• Digital filtering DSP and controls via Xilinx MicroBlaze FPGA soft processor cores
• Ultra-low phase noise oscillator master clock
• 1 x Toslink input and 1 x Toslink output
• 2 x BNC digital input
• 1 x AES/EBU input
• USB - asynchronous mode, Thesycon Asynchronous USB Audio 2.0 drivers for Win
• DSD over USB (firmware 4.0.0)
• All digital inputs are transformer coupled, galvanically isolated
• 2 x headphone outputs on front panel, simultaneous drive and levels can be independently set
• The SD Card source provides a scrollthrough list of song titles found on the card.
  WAV, AIFF, FLAC, DFF and DSD data formats of up to 384kS/, 24 bit word width are supported.
  Direct Stream Digital (DSD) is supported on the SD Card via the DSF and DFF file formats.
• Low noise OLED screen
• Firmware upgradeable (FPGA)
• High quality AD797 J-FET operational amplifier output stage

The manual contains a lot of measurements.

Each measurement is accompanied by a short explanation, very instructive.

This DAC is linear up to 130 dB. An excellent values allowing for minimal full 22 bits resolution.

 

RME ADI-2 DAC €999,00

DA converter with a lot of options.

 

The USB 2.0 port is fully Class Compliant (UAC 2)

• 5-band Parametric EQ
• Bass / Treble
• Loudness
• Crossfeed
• PCM/DSD
• Dual output for headphone and IEM
• RCA and XLR out
• Selectable filters: Short Delay Sharp, Short Delay Slow, Sharp, NOS.