NEW DAC-Z10

Should be DAC-Z10 but can't see an option to edit thread name.

Looks like a big touchscreen and prbably a better headphone amp than the Z8 (thanks Eversolo, only just purchased the Z8!)
I presume it'll be much more expensive though. I'm thinking close to a grand.

 

I hope device will retain the size of other devices in DAC lineup. Renders make it look much bigger but I might be wrong. And I hope this time they will release the device in both colors (blank and silver).

 

Wow... an R2R dac from Eversolo, I LIKE

 

I hope the amplification is better than on the previous one to actually drive decent headphones.

I am not a fan of wrapping glass screen around headphone jacks - these tend to crack over time or scratch easily.

 

R2R = 0.5 kidney

 

I don't think it's an R2R DAC, the R2R might only be for the volume attenuation like previously, but I could be wrong.

 

We shall see... if this is full blown touch screen, it will be a fingerprint nightmare

 

guau!! acabo de comprar un z8!!!

 

El Z8 es un DAC exceptional, no te pongas triste...
The Z8 is an exceptional DAC, don't feel sad...

 

It seems like an AKM Dac with an R2R volume control, an A8 without the streaming part. I hope it has an XLR input and that the analog circuit is fully balanced...

 

A DAC, in principle, does not have analog inputs...

 

Its a preamp too.

 

Where have you read it?

 

From the picture - it seems like an A8 without streaming, AKM dac and R2R preamp.

 

There is nowhere to be read R2R preamp. It's an R2R volume (attenuator, like all R2R volume ladders).
It is an A8 without the streamer, like the Z8 could be one...
It just says: AUDIO DECODER, which is the human-readable form of digital-to-analog-converter or, in short, DAC.

 

The Z8 uses ESS chips and has no R2R attenuator, so it could never be an A8 without streaming.

To me it seems like an AKM DAC with the same preamp circuit with an R2R volume control you have on the A8 and the A10. But I may be wrong...

 

I allow myself to remember you that the pre-amp in the A8/A10 is an analog one, and is restricted to the analog domain only (and it is pure, analog-in => analog-out, without digitization) - does not affect the digital domain; that is: it is applied only to the analog signals entering the circuitry, not the digital ones being converted. The Z10 is by no means a pre-amp of this design. It has an R2R (well. actually, 2) passive volume ladder; this indeed makes it a pre-amp; just a passive one, with no gain. The fact it uses an AKM chip (or coupled chips, as things with the 4499 go) makes no difference; just another SOTA chip.

 

Oh, OK, so you know more than me. It's a passive preamp instead of the active one on the A8 and A10... thanks for the clarification!