Are there any excellent inexpensive Chinese DACs?

Okay, we think the opposit, and you don't know better layout is an important part of a DAC and this is mostly what matters from the 2 layers days to go beyond today beyond monney margin of cheap product mass market brands. I understand why you don't like me, lol ! So you just like people that sell cheap chifi and promote them in a diy forum ?! Bravo ! Another thing : critic is the way to advance towards the better, scientific process, don't put moral where there is not.

but please keep your bad words to you, don't talk for others and don't tell me what I should do. Because in the Digital Line, several diyers sell their designs or pcbs as kits, mostly because they worked hard on that and that costed (so they clearly don't make monney on this by selling few kits, but that help to continue as it becomes costlywhith the parts prices and time to design and improve) and don't want to be copied in chineese kitchen vendor shops.

Also I never told/tell you what you must like, but you eventually said where I must go... that's a big difference, no ? Okay some make good YT and copied poorely others designs as well and promote it there, but this is an exception in this forum as this thread btw.

Further more I am rigth in the topic as we talk of cheap and the fact that is a DIY forum from where all the cheap chi-Fi from ALi shematic are sourced from but made w/o care.... You eventually live perfectly well with that, so no advices to me please 😉 . I just ask if some interest for something cheap but well made as I made 5 prototypes. AND it is DIY... and I see people avoiding diy to spend in poor Ali bad made DACS for most of them. Never said it is the best but anyway sounds very good not only for I and the frontend is made by anothers' with care and diy spirit as well! So yeah I propose my pcb and BOM as an honest alternative.

I was the first here to promot a chineese kit from one of the diyers member here, btw ! So if your contribution is just about promoting cheap chineese DACS brands and sort them out by SINAD to tell here a 100 chifi sounds better than expensive DACs, you eventually is in the wrong place and not in position to tell me what I should do! There are anothers forums to rank off the shelfs cheap chifi 2 layers with high speed dac chips !
 
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🙂 For the last time, I believe SINAD tells nothing about if it sounds excellent for me. But everything better then 100db is a good start.

Every design is a compromise in some way. Money spend tells nothing if I should like It.
But spending 5 times 100euro gives me a better change to find a excellent dac then 1 time 500euro.

I can not build a dac for 100euro even 500euro as I like the akliam pd6.
 
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