- Dual WM8741 sigma-delta DAC chip
- Low jitter WM8805 digital input reciever
- Fully discrete no feedback class A output stage (NFB means No-Feed-Back)
- no feedback Class A power supply
- No OPAMPs, no coupling caps
- 3 x R-core transformers
- Premium parts (Nover, Wima, Evox and Solen capacitors, Dale and Vishay resisters, Sanyo Oscons, etc)
- AES/EBU, RCA and BNC Coaxial, Toslink, and USB digital input (24/96)
- Dual FET buffer output stage to achieve low output impedance
- XLR and RCA analog outputs
- SNR of 128 dB
- Dynamic range of 128 dB
- US$1,200
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Audio GD NFB-8 DAC
Newest Audio GD's WM-based DAC (the other "Reference" family uses Burr-Brown PCM1704), NFB-8 uses two WM8741 and can decode up to 24/192kHz with a plethora of inputs. Impressive internal layouts and components as you would have expected from Kingwa.