Cambridge Audio 650C vs DACMagic

greybeige

greybeige

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I'm about one month away (birthday) from ownership of a new CA 650C. Does this unit have the same DAC technology as the DACMagic? Does anybody have experience with the 650C, positive or negative, that you could share? Thanks.
 
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Im curious about the same thing, is the Dacmagic dac the same as the 650c dac? The CA website says the 650c dac is 24bit/192khz capable. Was does that mean? Is it the same dac or not?
 
It is the same dac but I don't think the implementation is the same. CA doesn't mention their Adaptive Time Filtering (ATF™) asynchronous upsampling technology which converts 16-24 bit audio (at any standard sampling frequency between 32-96kHz) to 24 bit/192kHz (which is in the DacMagic) until the 740C. The 650C summary page makes no mention of the ATF technology and CA's website says that the DAC is 24bit/192kHz capable.

The 740c goes one step further that it upsamples to 24bit/348kHz while the DacMagic does 24bit/192kHz.

Most of the reviews I have read say that the DM is derived from the 740/840 line of CD players.
 
Cambridge 650c

24bit/192khz capable? Does the dac in the 650 output at 24bit/192khz or not? Saying it's capable has no meaning to me. Either it does or it doesn't. If the 650c doesn't really work at 24/192khz then I'd be better off buying the DacMagic and using my old Denon DVD2910 as a transport.
 
Why not Contact Cambridge and ask? Sometimes going straight to the source is the fastest way to get the information you need. Just a suggestion.
 
That's what I was wanting to know. Cambridge saying the 650c is 24/192 capable is misleading in my opinion.Thanks for the info.
 
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