Darren, How are your soldering skills ? I strongly recommend one of the diy units. I went through range of commercial dacs including Transporter, Minimax, Benchmark, Audio GD, Northstar Design, Weiss and some I don't remember names of. Always there was something keeping me off those units, either sonic performance or high price. Sure it is a matter of personal taste but what I recently got for $175, blew away everything I have heard so far. This is a dac kit based on PCM1794 and extremely good class-A output stage - all discrete, paper-in-oil coupling capacitors, Vishay resistors etc. All high quality components. Take a look here.
http://www.fetaudio.com/ No affiliation whatsoever. Just to let you know that you don't have to pay $2000 or more for dac done right. -- gizek SB Touch > DIY FDA-1 DAC > Audio Research LS3b preamp > Pass Labs XA30.5 amp > Sonus Faber Cremona Auditor M ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gizek's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34337 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87518 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
