Happy Birthday to Me

[Puffin]

Hello Puffin,

We at The Art of Sound Forum would like to wish you a happy birthday today!

Blimey, I haven't received one of these for years:lol: I just assumed I had fallen out of favour:eek:

Well I am now the same age as my knees...Clickety Click.

[brian2957]

Happy birthday to you Rob ( and to your knees too :) ) Hope you have a great day :cool:

[Marco]

How's it hanging, Rob? Still slightly to the left?:D

Anyway, Happy Birthday, mate. Hope you have a nice one!:cool:

Marco.

[walpurgis]

Many Happy Returns Rob! :birthday:

[struth]

yes many happy returns rob..:eek:

[Puffin]

Thanks for all the replies chaps.

[Covenant]

My birthday is on the 16th March, close to yours. A (relatively) expensive DAC for me. Hope you got more than the usual socks Rob.

Many happy returns from the old codgers club.

Jerry

[Lawrence001]

Mines just been and my mum's is coming, our puppy's is the day after that. I treated myself to a new DAC the other day, I'll call that my present [emoji2]

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[Puffin]

Thanks Jerry and Lawrence. I had a text today from the DWP to say that my state pension is on the way! Hopefully it will buy me a few pairs of socks:lol:

I was looking at getting a new Dac as things have moved on in the last few years. I fancy an ESS Sabre based one. What will I then do with the 8 other Dacs:)

[Lawrence001]

I got a text today inviting me for my jab, have booked it for Monday but still need to do my research..

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[Covenant]

Thanks Jerry and Lawrence. I had a text today from the DWP to say that my state pension is on the way! Hopefully it will buy me a few pairs of socks:lol:

I was looking at getting a new Dac as things have moved on in the last few years. I fancy an ESS Sabre based one. What will I then do with the 8 other Dacs:)

Haha,
Knowing you Rob, I bet you are thinking about a kit one?
It does appear to be one area where advances have been made. I have gone for a Denafrips, lots of positive reviews. Had a sabre dac but it left me a bit cold-preferred my old Beresford.

[Puffin]

I have just finished making a "breathed on" Gainclone based on the LM3886 chips. It's only been 14 years in the making! I bought the boards in 2006 in a group buy on Diyaudio and populated the boards with some components I had already and then realised that to get the max out of the circuit I needed to buy boutique style fancy caps and resistors. At that point I lost interest and other stuff got in the way. Fast forward to "The World According to Covid" and in Sept thought about getting it finished. I resisted (did you see what I did there) the advice to get fancy and overpriced parts and got good quality workaday stuff from RS and others.

I have only just finished it and it don't sound too shabby. I have a few flavours of Gainclones and this may be the best....time will tell. A couple of pics should appear. And yes I have been looking at some Sabre based boards to make my own.

https://i.imgur.com/ldXkQ8F.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/du6zVXR.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/JGzJnRw.jpg

[walpurgis]

Neat. I like it! :thumbsup:

[Puffin]

Neat. I like it! :thumbsup:

Thanks. The enclosure was mega expensive!...£7 from "The Works" I think they are meant for artists brushes or pencils etc.