praganj;672493 Wrote: > It looks that Buffalo DAC is better engineered than many other "well > enigineered" DACs :)
The TP Buffalo DAC is just a Sabre DAC appliance. I don't see much of impressive engineering. It's extremly sensitive on incoming distortions. It requires multi stage de-jittering to make that device sing. The key area "(onboard)power supply" needed to be swapped out completely. However - We use that device for testing though. Because it's cheap. And delivers a nice base. But on the BII you at least need to 1. swap all onboard regulators (LiPoFe4 batteries prefered) 2. run a better output stage (passive transformer based) 3. at least put a real good pulse transformer on the SPDIF input 4. remove the PIC All that can easily double/triple the price tag. However. At that tweaked level you'll have a close to reference quality device at hand. IMO in the key areas TP just delivers average audio electronics. The newest Bufallo incarnation is supposed to be better then BII though. If you have a look at other commercial applications of that Sabre DAC you'll see that you can do better on the engineering part. ;) Cheers -- soundcheck ::: ' Touch Toolbox 3.0 and more' (http://soundcheck-audio.blogspot.com) ::: by soundcheck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ soundcheck's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34383 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
