Just wondering what success any of you have had building DAC kits.
there are some cheap non oversampling boards on ebay these days like
the DAC-AH
http://eshop.diyclub.biz/articles.php?tPath=2,
and this has a growing user base - it's about $140 which comes out
under £100 with shipping I should think. Possible, also, to add a tube
stage for tube lovers. Any other experiences?
Here's a list of all the kits I could find - mainly cheaper 1543 type
NOS, but some more adventurous -----
http://diyparadise.com/dacs.html Yeo's DAC kit 1543/1545
http://diyparadise.com/mar06/gg.html Yeo's tube stage
http://www.octave-electronics.com/Kits/dac.shtml Etude 1716 DAC -
CS8414+PCM1716 £87
http://www.octave-electronics.com/Star/07dac.shtml Etude review
http://members.chello.nl/~m.heijlige...tml/dactop.htm Tent Labs
DAC CS8412+PCM63
http://www.kandkaudio.com/digitalaudio.html K and K RAKK DAC
CS8416+PCM1794 $249
www.hagtech.com/chime.html Hagtech Chime DAC $599 halfkit
http://www.dddac.de/ Doede Douma. DDDAC2000 NOS CS8412+1543 89€
http://www.steinmusic.de/audiofino/komp-weitere.html NONOS DAC 698€
http://www.audionotekits.com/ Audio Note DAC 1.1 and 2.1, Zero DAC
http://www.scott-nixon.com/dac.htm Scott Nixon Tubedac $100 to $200
http://www.audiosector.com/ TDA1543 DAC Peter Daniel
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/attac...amp=1112327211
Schematic
http://www.audiocraftersguild.com/Xdac/dacprice.htm Audiocrafters
Guild X-DAC 3.0 CS8412, CS4328, AD1891 $547
www.vdac.co.uk Chris Found DAC kits UK, latest is VDAC-4 £800
http://diyaudiocraft.com/ Ultimate Twin DAC 8414+1541A (DIY Audio
tube-lover)
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showt...threadid=55808
Ultimate Twin thread by Tube_Lover
http://eshop.diyclub.biz/product_inf...413e5fa3c7e0fd
DAC AH CS8414 as digital input reciver, 8 pcs of TDA1543 in parallel
$135
http://us.hifidiy.net/index.asp TDA 1543 kit ebay $88 4 Philips
TDA1543 IC chips.
Digital receiver using CS8148 and Output OP Amp using OPA604AP.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Philips-TDA154...QQcmdZViewItem
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/AudioDIYLab 24bit, 192kHz Digital receiver :
CS8414, DAC chip : PCM1739 $139.99
http://www.curcioaudio.com/cddes_3.htm Curcio CD12V (1541)
http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/tnt1541_e.html TNT tda1541 DAC
Giorgio Pozzoli 2003 uses 8412
http://www.milossaluciano.com/Reinas...alessandro.htm Digital
Renaissance Tube, Taiwan 1543
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Philips-TDA154...QQcmdZViewItem
$88 1543 DAC