I have put in an order for a second one as you can't touch this kind of sound quality for the price!  MadWelshman  is quick to "post" a judgement without any specifics!  Anyway, to answer the question about comparing it to a soundcard, I would bet $100 that no internal soundcard made could...

To answer the question of the wall plug, it is a transformer that provides the required 16v to power the DAC, and he wanted something that was very reliable, so he chose this transformer as it is used by alarm companies for their systems -- it is extremely robust and reliable!  Also, this is not...

I found his ad in the local craigslist and decided to stop by and see what his Dacs were all about!  After some discussion, I decided to special order a dual chip version of his DAC without all the bells and whistles of the standard dual chip DAC (the std dual chip has a lot of studio...