wanted: TDA1541A S1 or S2 Crown

[sl1]

Yea, marketing is like SunBucks Coffee or Hike instead of Nike.

 

[Eldam]

... when it comes to sound good just looking at the board or the scope... Eyes seem bigger than ears these days !

Ayron Senna to the Honda engineers about the NSX : " your car is as rigid as an elastic, but sure the specs and the shape are looking good... on the paper".

 

[taccodude]

After all the Interest,here are some more Pictures. The S1 (last in Row)was soldered. The Pedja Dac is for Sale too. PN please.

 

[Eldam]

Damned, which dac sounds better than this one ! Is it the version with the AD844 i/v & buffer ?

What is your dac today ?

Some newer tips are missing on it according my experience with this board, but at least I like a lot how it looks : the good smell of tweaking

 

[taccodude]

A good old Philips CD304 heavy tweaked ,with S2 Chip in it ,is still my Favorite. Only bought the Pedja to check out with USB .

 

[Eldam]

Yep I liked this cd player, I tweaked 3 of them iirc ! Well, the AYA II 2014 is above : thanks to the uf-l plugs you can putt the best diy digital front-ends : IanCanada, SD Trans, etc...

But for sure I like also the old Philips Mechanics, I have them all ina box as I collapsed a lot of CD player youngers to learn... they were costing Nothing : 10 or 20 euros... I till have a tDA1540 somewhere player from Marantz : cd45 iirc

 

[sl1]

A good old Philips CD304 heavy tweaked ,with S2 Chip in it ,is still my Favorite. Only bought the Pedja to check out with USB .

304 with tda1540 or mk2 with tda1541a? A if it is s2 then mk2.

 

[taccodude]

You are right , MK2

 

[bolly]

taccodude, please answer your pm or reply here you received my payment Friday

 

[Eldam]

... or we send you Merkel....

 

[taccodude]

It is Weekend here and I´ll try send everything on Tuesday(if Work doesn`t keep me busy)
Regards DT

 

[taccodude]

no ,no ,no Merkel Please.....

 

[bolly]

thanks DT, was only looking for a confirmation

 

[Eldam]

I'm looking forward to read your subjective reviews of the different chips...

 

[Eldam]

no ,no ,no Merkel Please.....

ok I keep her for myself

Btw, what is your prefered TDA chip on your dacs ?

 

[bolly]

yes Eldam, not sure if CD880 is proper platform but it should be interesting comparing the 3 chips; TDA1541A, S1 and S2

 

[Eldam]

My conclusion is the Taiwan and the S1 don't ask the same setup around... Never heard a S2 though... but if a S2 is a super Taiwan98, I may prefer the S1. At least I prefer actually the S1 over the simple Taiwan98... on my Platform.

 

[bolly]

these are the S2 and S1 chips I purchased from diy members, thank you very much!!

HSH8931 2 S1
RSH9713 2 S2

and just purchased a new to me used pace pps-101 kit

 

[Luckbad]

Hoping to get my hands on a good TDA1541A chip. Anyone other than ecdesigns have the late production Taiwan chips? I sent him a PM because I didn't see them listed on his website. Obviously interested in S1/S2 as well, but those tend to be priced crazily.

 

[taccodude]

Still got some left.Some from Groupbuy on DIYA and some were for Repairs,so should be all genuine.