Lampizating on Burr Brown PCM53 JP-V DAC?

[TBL]

I am having several old school CD players that use this DAC, a stereo one, like in Hitachi DAD-1000, Realistic CD-1000, and Denon DCD-1000.

I wish to turn them into tube outputs, eliminating the four OpAmps of NE5532 on, for instance the Realistic CD-1000.

Has someone done lampizator on this chip? Mr. Lukazs Fikus at www.lampizator.eu has no information on this specific DAC but I think the Hitachi setup on the Realistic CD-1000 has some great potential.

Any idea is appreciated.

Terence

 

[erin]

PCM53 is a great sounding chip. Good luck with your project

 

[sova]

This DAC PCM 53 JG-V has V-out only, with OP AMP inside.
It is impossible omit there OP AMP so far.
I think, tube cathode follower implementation is possible.

 

[gabdx]

Yes, if you go for tubes you don't need any gain.

Go always cathode follower for DAC, never install a gain stage unless you use a lot of feedback.

I learned that building 2 lampizator designs and removing both.

I built single tube cathode followers and parallel cathode followers for dacs as well as a head phone output through monster capacitors film cap of 200uf for Senheiser HD600

The conclusion is that a good output stage is is the most crucial aspect of good digital music.

The TDA1541 is maybe the best dac but obsolete today.

Please use a good differential discrete transistor output feed with a regulated power supply, it is in all aspects superior to a tube cathode follower.

 

[korpberget]

Cambridge Audio Azur 640C ALmpizator

You can find a link to cathode follower a bit down this page. It's for voltage output dac.
I used it on a Cambridge like that and it sounds great! I also have another stock Cambridge for comparing. It sounds like a cheap heap of plastic next to the lampized one.