Historicus
31-01-2009, 18:13
I thought it was another toy DAC from China then it arrived and after a burn in of about 200 hours this little Valab NOS DAC from Kevin (price: 180 USD, shipping included) that adopts eight paralleled TDA 1543 Philips chips without any oversampling sounds really natural and good. It makes me like CDs again.
I would be interested if someone bought this DAC to share here his impressions even on DIY mods of the capacitators with Blackgates and a new output stage with big trannys.
Some spoke that the VALAB NOS DAC outclasses even more expensive ones like Zero AN, Aeron DA-10 or Benchmark DAC 1.
here are some links:
http://home.comcast.net/~omaille/audio/valabdac/valabdac.html
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f7/valab-dac-first-impressions-378459/
http://www.dddac.de/ma_dac21.htm
and here the article of Kusonoki San about not oversampling DAC
http://www.sakurasystems.com/articles/Kusunoki.html
http://www.tnt-audio.com/intervis/kusunoki_e.html
I would be interested if someone bought this DAC to share here his impressions even on DIY mods of the capacitators with Blackgates and a new output stage with big trannys.
Some spoke that the VALAB NOS DAC outclasses even more expensive ones like Zero AN, Aeron DA-10 or Benchmark DAC 1.
here are some links:
http://home.comcast.net/~omaille/audio/valabdac/valabdac.html
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f7/valab-dac-first-impressions-378459/
http://www.dddac.de/ma_dac21.htm
and here the article of Kusonoki San about not oversampling DAC
http://www.sakurasystems.com/articles/Kusunoki.html
http://www.tnt-audio.com/intervis/kusunoki_e.html