Abraxalito thank you for the reply. Yes ridicule does put me off. So I will study your reply and where do I buy the TDA1387 and adapters if I want to try that Lite DAC-AH mod?
Looks like the prices vary a lot, this one fake? www.ebay.com/itm/10x-New-PHILIPS-TDA1387-TDA-1387-SMD-/380693780723
Looks like the prices vary a lot, this one fake? www.ebay.com/itm/10x-New-PHILIPS-TDA1387-TDA-1387-SMD-/380693780723
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I buy TDA1387 from Taobao, they sell chips they've recovered from old Soundblaster cards at ridiculously cheap prices (about $0.08 each). But new (perhaps old stock) TDA1545As can be had for about $0.30. I've never heard of fake TDA1387s - I can't think of any chip which could replicate its functionality to any degree.
To find adapters just search for DIP8 to SOIC8 adaptor, plenty I saw on ebay just now. I have wired up a couple with just using thin tinned copper wire to do the adapting, it depends how confident you are with soldering.
To find adapters just search for DIP8 to SOIC8 adaptor, plenty I saw on ebay just now. I have wired up a couple with just using thin tinned copper wire to do the adapting, it depends how confident you are with soldering.
Hi Lithium 675. Can't remember how much the Lite Dac 83 cost me, but it wasn't expensive, nor cheap. After listening to it for almost 2 years now, I feel it gives me what I want. That MA9 looks pretty interesting for a portable.
I'm not sure how a good TDA1545 sounds like to compare, but taobao is really the place to buy things these days huh?
I'm not sure how a good TDA1545 sounds like to compare, but taobao is really the place to buy things these days huh?
Very , very hard to find, many fakes.
Rochester has 1704, But J or U grades and maybe just U ones now.
Nearly all the K grade from Asia are fakes. Maybe Pass have some K chips for repairs to Pass Dacs
Rochester has 1704, But J or U grades and maybe just U ones now.
Nearly all the K grade from Asia are fakes. Maybe Pass have some K chips for repairs to Pass Dacs
I asked this before, who here has had functioning working PCM1704 fake?
If the "fake" works, it couldn't be a fake. As the pinout is not duplicated by anything else to make a fake with, except maybe a PCM1702.
And if they don't work and are fake, then purchasers can be refunded with eBays policies.
Cheers George
If the "fake" works, it couldn't be a fake. As the pinout is not duplicated by anything else to make a fake with, except maybe a PCM1702.
And if they don't work and are fake, then purchasers can be refunded with eBays policies.
Cheers George
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I don't know and I got eight 8 items in 2007 PCM1704U-K the label does not indicate U-K
from China but they work perfectly..but I'm not sure if it's authentic,my Dealer has told me that is it PCM1704U/2k
from China but they work perfectly..but I'm not sure if it's authentic,my Dealer has told me that is it PCM1704U/2k
I have 2 off, PCM1704 K grade, brand new sitting in my parts store.
Every now and then I am tempted to use them for a project but as DS DACs
improve the urge is waning.
TCD
As my post says. 2 off.
PM me with an offer. I'm not really in a hurry to sell them, when they are gone, they are
gone forever and they are a really great sounding DAC if implemented well.
TCD
PM me with an offer. I'm not really in a hurry to sell them, when they are gone, they are
gone forever and they are a really great sounding DAC if implemented well.
TCD
Don't know, but I have a MSB discrete here at the moment, and it's the best sounding R2R I have ever heard.
Cheers George
You might want to look at my discrete R-2R modules, they sound pretty good, offer the newest features, are reasonable inexpensive and DIY friendly....