"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
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"Oddjob" wrote in message
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Hello everyone, I after the above chip from 1990-95

Does anybody know of a UK distributor likely to have old stock?

Many thanks

Why bother?

DAC chip technology has moved on since then.

**Typical American attitude. If it's broken, chuck it out, regardless of
the inherent quality of the device.

Misses the point that the inherent quality of the TDA1541 is relatively poor
by modern standards. People don't make audio DACs that way any more, and
there are very many good reasons for it. I can understand a person who
simply wants to get a quality legacy piece back into operation with minmal
hassle. My comments were intended for retro-technology freaks who scour the
world for this chip to the exclusion of all others for new equipment
construction, in their obsessive pursuit of better sound. Because of their
self-defeating behavior, legitimate needs for maintenance become frustrated.

This all reminds me of an stereo receiver I once had that features an
elaborate stereo decoder, with many discrete transistors, diodes, coils and
capcitors that needed extensive adjustement after assembly and featured a
tricky manual nulling technique to optimize its adjustment for every
station. One day I pretty well cleared its part of the circuit card and
replaced it with a $3 chip that sounded oh, so much better and required no
manual adjustements at all once a single potentiometer was set. The essence
of the potentiometer setting was to adjust it until there was sound.