I bought this kit from doobooloo a couple months ago for $200 shipped--a great price. Since then, I've spent a few thousand on audio and video components setting up two home theaters, two music rooms and audio/video systems throughout my home and am starting to realize I probably won't be building this DAC anytime soon.
From doobooloo's description of the DAC: "The DAC-38 is a pretty serious DAC with an optical input and balanced/unbalanced outputs. It uses two PCM1704K DAC chips, which are very high-performance parts capable of 8x oversampling (to 768KHz). They're followed by a CS8414 96KHz receiver and the DF1704 8x interpolation filter. Kind of the antithesis of the simple dAck-ish non-upsampling approaches to DACs."
The kit includes all of the expensive chips, the PCB, special transformers, difficult to source heatsinks, schematic, and a bag of expensive capacitors. I asked doobooloo if he thought the remaining components would cost maybe $100 to $125. He replied, "If even that." The full kit from diyclub.biz costs $420 + expensive shipping, so this is a great opportunity to score a high-end DAC for a great price.
$150 + shipping for immediate sale, or I'll collect offers. That ought to motivate someone to tackle this. PayPal preferred, or let me know how you want to pay and we'll work something out.
Some links (and there are even more links if you click on these):
doobooloo's ad
DAC-38 thread
Thanks for looking,
Paul
P.S. I have perfect transaction feedback everywhere: Ebay (comabereni), here (comabereni), and on Astromart (P. Lee Stock).
From doobooloo's description of the DAC: "The DAC-38 is a pretty serious DAC with an optical input and balanced/unbalanced outputs. It uses two PCM1704K DAC chips, which are very high-performance parts capable of 8x oversampling (to 768KHz). They're followed by a CS8414 96KHz receiver and the DF1704 8x interpolation filter. Kind of the antithesis of the simple dAck-ish non-upsampling approaches to DACs."
The kit includes all of the expensive chips, the PCB, special transformers, difficult to source heatsinks, schematic, and a bag of expensive capacitors. I asked doobooloo if he thought the remaining components would cost maybe $100 to $125. He replied, "If even that." The full kit from diyclub.biz costs $420 + expensive shipping, so this is a great opportunity to score a high-end DAC for a great price.
$150 + shipping for immediate sale, or I'll collect offers. That ought to motivate someone to tackle this. PayPal preferred, or let me know how you want to pay and we'll work something out.
Some links (and there are even more links if you click on these):
doobooloo's ad
DAC-38 thread
Thanks for looking,
Paul
P.S. I have perfect transaction feedback everywhere: Ebay (comabereni), here (comabereni), and on Astromart (P. Lee Stock).
