Burmester 870 CD processor. DAC ?

You will need to follow the traces and do some reverse engineering since I have my doubts that Burmester will show you the schematics. I know, it is a terrible thing to do but some companies are like this. They sell very expensive gear which is built with common parts and after you´re out of warranty, you have 3 options: 1) try to repair the gear 2) throw it in the bin or 3) sell it on ebay..

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SAA7220 is designed to feed TDA1541 so that would be my initial guess for the chip used. How many pins is it and what style package?

It generally looks like TDA 1541, but have 2x12 pins. I don't know way to add photos here.
 

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It looks like Burmester used PCM53 JP-V.
Any ideas?...

Hard to say, simply from looking at a photo. However, I do note the many glue logic chips, of which, there appear to be 74LS174 hex flip-flops. I suppose those might be utilized for PCM53 serial to parallel conversion. Doesn't appear to be a TDA1541 DACs, as I don't spot the usual array of 100nF de-coupling capacitors.
 
With only 24pins its definitely not TDA1541(A) nor TDA1540 and with all those logic chips it does look extremely likely that they're doing serial-parallel (74LS164 shift regs at the top) then time-interleaving (the 20pin chips are 74LS374 8 bit latches) to an array of PCM52 or -53s.