Why no UK built NOS DAC?

[3DSonics]

Hi,

Hey T, do you reckon that 1545 DAC kit that Yeo's selling will sound okay?? In your opinion of course.

I have not heard it. I think an active I/V solution would be better.

I have a small battery powered DAC with TDA1545 & active I/V, non-OS and it sounds perfectly nice, much better (smoother, but with more detail - like Glenmorangie vs. Bells) than the TDA1543 stuff....

Ciao T

 

[buddha]

smoother, but with more detail - like Glenmorangie vs. Bells

I found a VERY nice blend called "Immortal Memory" - try it - full-bodied, more substantial than Glenmorangie :JOEL:

Here are the tasting notes

If only I could find a cheap DAC like that :JPS:
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Extreme Vaporizer Review

 

[Garmt]

My Ack dAck! uses TDA1545A, battery power and active I/V. I think it sounds dandy, but it falls down on complex material I find.

 

[Coda II]

Hi,



Philips CDM4Pro Swingarm IIRC and the player is called in the UK "Omega Drive"....



Ciao T

Does it come with a free CD?

 

[technobear]

I have a small battery powered DAC with TDA1545 & active I/V, non-OS and it sounds perfectly nice, much better (smoother, but with more detail - like Glenmorangie vs. Bells) than the TDA1543 stuff....

Why not offer it as a kit, like Crimson Elektrik used to do. Fully assembled and tested boards, DAC and PSU. Just build your own enclosure

 

[Garmt]

Why not offer it as a kit, like Crimson Elektrik used to do. Fully assembled and tested boards, DAC and PSU. Just build your own enclosure

Would love to, but it is not my design... In fact, it is commercially available as 'Ack dAck!'. In short: I have an Ack dAck!

 

[3DSonics]

Hi,

Why not offer it as a kit, like Crimson Elektrik used to do. Fully assembled and tested boards, DAC and PSU. Just build your own enclosure

What for?

Diyparadise.com already has comparable offers anyway and my time is not worth the income.

As said before, learn to solder, take a piece of matrix board and solder in your own CS8412 & TDA1545 and the few additional components, total cost for what goes on the board around £ 10...15....

Ciao T

 

[technobear]

Tried typing 'Ack dAck' into Google. Didn't find anything on DACs but it turned up some very strange stuff

 

[Dexter]

Ack! Industries

 

[Garmt]

That's it! :MILD:

 

[michaelab]

One downer about the Ack Dack is that it's battery powered. TBH I doubt the sonic benefits (if any) are worth the hassle of having to charge it etc. Amongst the many pages on the net about Non-OS dacs there's one guy who showed that a battery PSU can add its own issues and is not necessarily 'cleaner' than a decent mains driven PSU.

Michael.

 

[Garmt]

One downer about the Ack Dack is that it's battery powered. TBH I doubt the sonic benefits (if any) are worth the hassle of having to charge it etc. Amongst the many pages on the net about Non-OS dacs there's one guy who showed that a battery PSU can add its own issues and is not necessarily 'cleaner' than a decent mains driven PSU.

It's all about implementation... I don't care that much for the battery powered operations. You just turn it on when you want to listen and turn it off when you're done... I got at least 12 hours of play out of it (it can do even more).

 

[ChrisPa]

Thorsten

Note that DAC's using Asyncronous Sample Rate Conversion (UpSampling, JitterBuster, ASRC et al) to "remove" jitter are not allowed for inclusion,

Does that include diyparadise.com's Monica 2 ?

Chris

 

[3DSonics]

Hi,

Thorsten
Does that include diyparadise.com's Monica 2 ?

That uses asyncronous re-clocking. This instead of reducing jitter makes it sky-high (one sample period peak - that 22,700,000pS) but randomises it and changes the distribution with frequency. I find it a bit of taking potshots in the dark.

Ciao T

 

[T-bone Sanchez]

I notice that Mr Shek has used a choke in his latest DAC, interesting.......