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Noise Shaping Sigma Delta DACs - ESS Technology, Inc.

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<strong>ESS</strong> HyperStream Modulator<br />

• The HyperStream modulator is:<br />

– A collection of techniques applied to a noise-shaping loop<br />

that empirically remove the listener's ability to hear any<br />

difference between a noise shaping and a conventional<br />

DAC<br />

• ► When the final artifact is removed, the listener starts to<br />

choose the HyperStream modulator (in blind tests) as being<br />

better than the conventional DAC<br />

– It begins with one HyperStream patent, but there are many<br />

more “tricks”<br />

– I will describe just two of these differences...<br />

ΣΔ/HyperStream 29 of<br />

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