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Diy Dac what should i go for?

post #1 of 4
11/2/09 at 3:53pm
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Hello,

i'm willing to build a home headphones rig and will surely need a Dac. I would like to go for Diy because i could then do modyfications anf it's cheaper. I don't have a lot of money to spend, well maybe up to 40quid. I had a look at Alien Dac, i could then get some better capicitors. I had a look at ebay and found:
24bit/192hz this seems to be pretty interesting. Whole list of dac's on ebay: click.
Any recomendations?

Matt
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post #2 of 4
11/2/09 at 4:18pm
First you need to decide what you are going to connect your dac to.

If you have a SPDIF output already (either coax or optical) then the DAC you listed is an option.

If you do not have a SPDIF output already, USB DACs such as the AlienDAC, the BantamDAC and the GrubDAC (which I designed) are reasonable choices, with the Bantam and the Grub the most recent designs.
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post #3 of 4
11/3/09 at 2:42pm
DAC kit AD1865N-K NOS 1.0 NOS w/ transformer - eBay (item 220489501147 end time Oct-13-09 10:51:06 PDT)
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post #4 of 4
11/4/09 at 2:12am
are you happy to do casework? If not i'd go with amb's y1 or y2. AMB Laboratories DIY Audio Site
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