"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:16:58 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:


**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.

What gave you the impression that was why he was asking?

That's the usual context of questions like these.

There has been an amazing amount of worship of the TDA 1541 because it is
such a different technology than current (superior) practice.

IS there a better, easily available, slot-in replacement for this
chip?

Good question. If availibility remains a problem, someone who has the need
might want to do their homework.

Using a lower grade of the same chip would probably not cause any real world
problems and should be investigated first.

However, it would be acceptable to put the new works on a little piece of
circuit card and fly it on stilts over the existing converter chips. Both
the converter and reconstruction filters would need to be bypassed.