Quote Originally Posted by themystical View Post
Not sure about regulation, this one has a 3V supply as well I believe. A nice balanced valve output stage ala lampizator should help with the realism on vocals if everything else is almost perfect.
How does it compare with the new Wolfson 8741?
How much did you pay for this? I quite fancy playing with this one as well but the idea of queing up ready to press the buy button when Twisted Pear Audio releases the next batch is putting me off. There is no other way of getting hold of one these is there?
It uses 3.3v and 1,2v for the core, my plan is to separate the XO supply too and separate as much other parts as possible
The onboard regulation isn't too bad tbh but shares its voltage with various bits, theres LM4562 after the LDO feeding the chip, theres always an area for improvements though with this stuff

The Wolfson chips are very good, their not as good as the Sabre though IMO
The 8741 is as far as I know their best chip

I'm afraid TP is the only place I know that offers these as a kit, the other option is one of the eva boards from ESS but tbh it didn't offer me the easy options of adding my own regulation , I/V stages etc , the Evaluation board also costs a lot more than the TP kits which isn't bad if you just want a plug and play unit

I doubt I'll be using a valve stage with this dac, they work nice with say the voltage output chips but they do add colouration, its something I'd like to avoid with the Sabre
We'll see how things go