(16 bit sign-magnitude, fourfold oversampling digital filters with noise shaping)

Cool- that's the sort of information I was interested in. Now, like I said, I'm unclear on what this jargon means exactly. I have read some articles about it and I have a fuzzy understanding of it. But how does this compare to the DAC conversion that consumer CD players do? Is is exactly the same as your average consumer CD player or does it differ?

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Tony Fabris