why not buy a good CD player that has a good DAC already inside? If you mainly used CDs then i would go for that :)

Quote: Damn that IS quite a lot ... i'll have to think either buy it or a few CDs, tough choice ;)

hm, interesting, i wonder how much better is it from the V4, since you compared to the V3, guess i'll see how much will i have to pay for it ;)

Yeah sure, how much did you have to pay for the new unit by the way? Thanks :)

do the V4 and V5 boards look different at all? Can someone post shots of those two side-by-side or something?

Quote: Cool - i'm interested how this amp drives the 650s :D

i was actually interested in that A100 amp as well, looking forward to hearing your opinions on it, the insides look quite sturdy too, and i like those indicators hehe ;) what kind of headphone are you going to use with it?

  Quote: Oh wow, i didn't realize it was that simple o.o thanks for the info, i'd better get in touch with audio-gd about this, how much does the new chip cost?

interesting, thanks for the advice guys, and what the heck, never thought there are other revisions of the dsp, how can i tell which one i have? Though mine came with jumpers, and i ordered it some time in august, how hard is it to replace anyway?

  Quote: Thanks :)

where can i get those teralink drivers? I really would like to use xp again ;)

Well i just checked the site and it is in the Preamplifier & Headphone Amplifier section..

  Quote: Yeah you're right, i guess i will wait for the review, however, i was also thinking of a Roc-SA since it seems the regular Roc is discontinued, but my DAC19 is SE, so i'm not quite sure, though it does pump more mW into 300 ohms(hd 650s) and should sound better even in SE...

C-2 SA has no ACSS inputs right? So i'm limited to RCA with my DAC19, i guess i'm gonna go for a C-2 and use ACSS, since i don't want to buy expensive RCA cables ;)

it's a vincent sv-129, got tired of the sound it made and i decided to upgrade it, just replaced the transformer caps with 2 nichicons, it's good :)

I guess i'll just leave it alone till I find a quality replacement with the same stats, and how can i check if the op-amp is in the singal path? Via service manual?   Quote:

all those caps out there that you see are replaced by me, most of them were some no-name stuff ;) and yeah that rubycon i checked was discontinued in 1999, my bet is the nichicons i have will be an improvement, here's the datsheet: i have the 80V 10,000uF...

Thanks :) yeah I have 2 Nichicons here waiting to be thrown in there and they're almost too big hehe ;) but i didn't realize that changing the op-amps will help imporve the sound quality on speakers? I did that on my sound cards though, i thought that's different? Cheers :) By the way, there's a...

Well i replaced most of the caps, since they were quite cheap, and old ;) hmm.. i guess i'll just leave the film ones alone then.. Any clues on re-solidering those black electrolytic ones? Cheers :)

hey guys :) i'm in the process of replacing caps in my old amp, though i don't what to do about these:   [blue ones]     [red ones]       are those film caps? If so then what kind of replacements should i get and also should i look at the same tech specs i did with the...

awesome, thanks for the information

thanks for the info, very helpful, do you have a link to dyno's blog? I can't seem to find it, cheers

same here, i was interested in using linux as well, sorry for going off-topic here, but is there a player for linux with capabilities like foobar? Cheers

Quote: ok i just checked it out, thanks

nobody tried it with windows xp? Also is the extra power supply worth it? Thanks