Ever heard about Full Digital Amplifiers ??

(Latest update:  Jul-25-2021)


Full Digital Amps (FDAs) sometimes also called Power DACs , Direct Digital Amps or All Digital Amps!


No !?!? Never heard about them?


...the end of separate  DAC + AMP audio systems is near!!! ;)


That's what I thought when first publishing this article in 2012 after playing around with this breed.

I then wrote: "For those of you who got tired chasing all kind of DACs or amplifiers (I did), and those who've read the 1000th review of another miracle DAC (I did), or those of you who got more confused then enlightened with the endless number of DACs of choice out there (I did again), or those who look for a very small, cost efficient and still great sounding system ... 

Jee - just figured -  I'm talking about myself..  ;)

And now I am realizing after more than 9 years further down the road not much has changed.
After abandoning this FDA project I slipped back into old habits, chasing DACs and amps. 

Update: However. Finally. Now in 2021 we find  new developments. SMSL recently launched a new FDA. The VMV A2 FDA. A beast. Here is the review. I havn't tested it myself. But it seems to be an interesting product. 1k for an SMSL product. I do think they realized themselve what they built there.
They might even be afraid of cannibalizing their own DAC/amp product lines. Anyhow. You should continue to read this article to get some more background info about these kind of DACs.