DAC AD1862: Almost THT, I2S input, NOS, R-2R

Regarding the dac and psu. Did someone tried commercial discrete 3 pin regulator for the 12v & 5v?
The problem would lie in the distance. Im tinking of a small diy pcb for these regs to plug in the dac psu connections and feed this with filterd dc from a separate regulated board.

Wast of time?
Maybe not. I used 2 of miro's PSU1 boards to split the power supply this way. You can pull filtered DC off of one board and feed it to the other all through the conveniently placed taps.
 

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Oke. But i mean if i buy 4 discrete regs. 12-, 12+, 5-, 5+. I would want them as close as possilbe to the dac/pcb. So if i make a third pcb for the regs and put the filtert dc from a (PSU 1 for example) board and then place this reg board on top of the dacby + ground - (bouth 12v and 5v). Get it?

One thing in the layout of Miro's pcb is you can not place regs on it or close to the chips. Thats why i start to think this maybe could be a options.
 
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Interesting find today from another site - a commercial DAC offering with AD1862. If you click on the pics and have a look you will see the internals in one shot and the AD1862 are visible. Looks like a discrete solid state output stage, unknown USB to i2s converter, choke filtered supplies

https://www.mojo-audio.com/mystique-x-se-d-a-converter/

Hard to see how this adds up to 15k but there you go. Take it as validation of the value we have received via Miro's (and plenty of other peoples') work.
 
15k.... and it looks like a fairly standard implementation - OK we don't see the usb/spdif boards but you can just make out the solder connections for i2s near the big caps. Looks to be 4 connections up to power the top boards via the molex.

Anyway sorry for the off topic post, but just interesting to see that implementation