PROTEUS: FIRST MAXIMUM ACCURACY ZERO-FATIGUE REF+10 DOLBY ATMOS SOUNDSTAGE

[Peter CINERAMAX]

wondering how these dacs fare against the new theta 12 channel gen 9?

The DAC3201 is 2 years old but could be weak link as it is not to expensive, the MIOS unit from Neve seems a bit old in the tooth.2001.

[Peter CINERAMAX]

JB if reading: trust me I am fine tuning the necessary changes to the system to reflect 80% of the importance to absolute LCR perfection , then to the transitional screen Heights and widths, this will require approval from Dolby, but since their system is still a work in progress here is a case where engineering will be influencing the creative side to achieve a more smoother and spectacular screen to room transition.

It's all good and coming soon....

I also have determined that the smaller diameter Mundorf amt used in the Z series appears to be more appropriate for midfield than far-field,I don't like anything sounding mid sized, accuse me of overcompensating , but I want huge soundstage and imaging so... the one speaker pair that impressed me the most in the Moscow penthouse for their capacity to project big sound way into the room,Im talking about chunks of Tony Stark's home flung overhead all the way back "almost hitting the projector" Was the LT-10, I hereby have requested the replacement of the Beyma TPL150 with the new and Improved, higher power handling, low distortion Audiophile grade TPL200..



Pops right  into TPL-150 cutout.

First time Beyma claims suitability for high end systems!

● Superior sound reproduction quality
● Extended frequency response (1 - 23 kHz)
● High sensitivity (101 dB)
● High power handling 240 W program (X-bow
®)
● Extremely linear frequency response
● Ultra low distortion
● Designed for High End systems


TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Rated impedance              8 Ω
D.C. resistance              4,9 Ω
Power capacity*            120 WAES above 1 kHz
Program power              240 W above 1 kHz
Sensitivity**                    101 dB 1W @ 1m
Frequency range            1 - 23 kHz

[Peter CINERAMAX]

Secret Intel confirms Theta is looking to replace their current dacs (super duper  stereophile class a for a decade) by this industry-wide highly anticipated ICONOCLASTIC next gen design, sounds to me we will need a modular 32 channel version for Atmos Premier Rank.

Why use 2001 dacs when you can have 2021 dacs? The field changes too often and NEVE seems too slow to react. Should investigate. Left message at Mola-Mola about 8 channel modular unit.

This also applies to TRITON with the very neutral analytical sounding 32 channel Trinnov altitude's internal dacs (as it applies to LCR where 80 percent of the signal comes out of per SMPTE 2014 study).

The Mola-Mola DAC: Future-Proof by Being Far Ahead.

You probably know the frustration of discovering your DAC has suddenly gone out of date because some new super chip has hit the market. We decided to stay out of that cycle and design, from the ground up, a discrete DAC whose unbeatable staying power results simply from being more than 10 years ahead of the performance curve. There's room enough for improvement: today’s best DAC chip claims no better than 22 bits’ worth of dynamic range and only 20 bits’ worth of linearity. High resolution music deserves better than that. Mola-Mola’s DAC is designed from the ground up using circuits and digital algorithms that were entirely developed in house.

Block Diagram of DAC




The converter is a three board stack that fits in one of the option slots in the preamp. On the first board, all incoming digital audio is upsampled to 3.125MHz/32 bits and converted to noise shaped PWM. The two remaining boards are mono DACs, in which a discrete 32-stage FIR DAC and a single-stage 4th order filtering I/V converter convert the PWM into analogue with a breathtaking 140dB SNR. This is near the theoretical limit for 24-bit files and far beyond that of even quad-speed DSD. Uniquely, distortion remains below the noise floor even for full scale signals. A quick look at current and historic trends of high-end IC’s indicates that for the foreseeable future this kind of performance will remain unavailable to manufacturers forced to rely on the same “chip du jour” that also powers their competitors’ products.

Even by today’s exacting standards, extraordinary care has been taken deal with jitter. Mola-Mola’s DAC uses a home-grown asynchronous upsampling algorithm whose input frequency measurement slows down rapidly until after a few seconds of lock, the frequency ratio measurement is frozen. Frequency stability is then wholly determined by the internal clock, a laboratory grade 100MHz SC-cut oscillator. This is effectively an atomic clock sans the physics package (which contributes nothing to spectral purity but quite a lot to cost).

Inputs
XLR, Optical, USB and Bluetooth (A2DP)

Supported formats
PCM up to 384 kHz /32 bits (>192 kHz and >24 bits only via USB)
DSD up to quad speed (DDSD and up only via USB)

Performance
Full-Scale Output Level: 20 dBu
Signal to Noise Ratio: 140 dB (standalone version), 130dB (preamp option board)
THD, IMD: not measurable (estimated -150 dB).
Bandwidth: Up to 80 kHz. Choice of sharp or slow upsampling filters, minimum or linear phase.
Integrated jitter: <1 ps from 10 Hz upwards, <300 fs from 1 kHz upwards.
Jitter rejection: >80 dB at 1 Hz after 20 seconds of lock.