Posted by FredT [ 24.175.120.40 ] on September 26, 2005 at 19:42:10:
In Reply to: Interesting DAC Bargain - $135 posted by FredT on August 15, 2005 at 14:19:47:
Returned from the hurricane evacuation shelter (son's house in Austin) at 2:30 this morning, and the DAC showed up about noon. This is the one that sells for $368; UPS air shipping adds another $90 to the final price. I looked under the hood and I'm impressed. Nice heavy construction, two R-core trannies, six separate regulated power supplies, two 24/96 Burr Brown PCM-1704 dac chips (one for each channel), discrete components in the 3rd order filter, EH-6922 tube output stage (no op amps!). Sounds very good right out of the box. I'm confident it would be priced around $1,368 instead of $368 and would receive rave reviews in Stereophile if Musical Fidelity or another of their favored manufacturers bought it from the same Chinese OEM manufacturer and sold it with their badge on it instead of the Lite Audio name.
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