For sale Sony das r1 dac

[Accudazed]

Blimey, this DAC has not sold.
This is only my opinion, but as DAC's go, this is one of the finest ever made. Like, EVER.
The build quality, design and real world engineering excellence are stupendous.
No one has made DAC's like this for a long time because it costs too much to do so. Back in the day, it was only a company of the size of Sony who could have made such a thing.
The UK has always 'struggled' with accepting this level of quality and engineering genius from a humdrum 'Jap crap' company like Sony. You know, it's a case of where's the badge value mate? I've come across the same mindset with cars, bikes, camera's, etc., etc.
Trust me, if you can get past that and expand your horizon's a bit, then this DAC will blow your mind.
Forget Esoteric, Soulution, Naim, etc., etc. because great as they are, they can't hold a candle to Sony when they really pulled out all of the stops.
£1650? Crazy bargain for a DAC that would cost small high end manufacturers about £35k to make now.
If only I could afford it!!
GLWS.

[bumpy]

Still waiting to hear how old it is

[mikeyb]

Googling suggest they were put into production 1987/88 and ceased in 1992. R1a version was released in 1989 as an update to the R1

According to Vintageknob.org only 250 were made in 220v for the EU market.

http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-DAS-R1.html

https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_li...y/das-r1.shtml

Hope that helps.

[bumpy]

So its about 30 years old? To your knowledge has it had any repairs or maintenance such as replacement of old caps?

Alternatively do you know of anyone in the UK who can maintain it.

[mikeyb]

I'm not the seller I only provided some info for you to help age the device

[bumpy]

Thanks. Hopefully the seller will be along shortly.

[struth]

marco has one of these.

[Wakefield Turntables]

Virtually none of the pics show up in this thread.

[mikeyb]

Working fine here on Chrome and Tapatalk

[walpurgis]

Pics OK here on Windows 10 and Maxthon browser.