[sdiy] Re: Inexpensive 16 bit DAC?

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Jaroslaw Ziembicki wrote:

> > When are 16-bit DACs widely accepted in synth products
> > ? 90s ?
>
> Around 1985, I would say. The 16 bit Burr-Brown chip PCM54
> (parallel inputs) was widely used.
> In the Roland D-50 synthesizer there was a PCM54 plus an
> additional resistor network to get a 20 bit resolution.

As a historical aside, one amazing thing about the DK Synergy is it had an
honest-to-goodness 16-bit monolithic DAC. I have no idea how much that
must have cost in 1981!

- Aaron

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