Hi dsavitsk,
Have you got your dac together yet, and if so, how does it sound?? I have contacted Yeo, but he is in the middle of moving and reorganizing his financial transactions.
Have you got your dac together yet, and if so, how does it sound?? I have contacted Yeo, but he is in the middle of moving and reorganizing his financial transactions.
I got it together enough to know that it works, however, I discovered that Holco's leads are too fat to fit through the board's holes, so I am waiting on some different resistirs.
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It is together and I am really impressed. I have no other experience with NOS DACs, but for the $60 it takes to build one of these, it sounds really good.
Compared to my Cary cdp, it has less bass and less treble (or more mid, I suppose.) Also, the sound is weird in that it is very real sounding, but also sort of digital. That is, compared to cheap processors I have heard, it has a more immediate life-like presence, but compared to really top notch processors, it is lacking a bit of refinement. Not sure if that makes sense, but that's my initial impression.
Oh, also, I have it built straight into a buffered passive preamp. I don't think you would want to try to drive long cables with it.
Compared to my Cary cdp, it has less bass and less treble (or more mid, I suppose.) Also, the sound is weird in that it is very real sounding, but also sort of digital. That is, compared to cheap processors I have heard, it has a more immediate life-like presence, but compared to really top notch processors, it is lacking a bit of refinement. Not sure if that makes sense, but that's my initial impression.
Oh, also, I have it built straight into a buffered passive preamp. I don't think you would want to try to drive long cables with it.
In reply to one of the other posts on why would you parrallel the 1543 dac chips...
Doede Duama's answer to that is that with parallel processes going on, errors average out.
With the 8 1543's that I have paralleled...they have very strong ability to drive the next stage...you could almost drive head phones from the stack of eight dacs......the result is very strong bass...
Doede Duama's answer to that is that with parallel processes going on, errors average out.
With the 8 1543's that I have paralleled...they have very strong ability to drive the next stage...you could almost drive head phones from the stack of eight dacs......the result is very strong bass...
audionut said:
I built a 16-chip unit and am driving headphones with it. It's not good enough for inefficient headphones like AKGs but Sennheisers and Grados work quite well. It also sounds much better than the 8-chip unit I had before when using the line out.
Peter
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