First of all, thank you Glassman (and of course ppl, Peranders, uhm, forgot anyone ? ) for the discrete buffers, they really sound good to me. I noticed they run quite hot, so I thought of adding on the accessible side of each one of those little heatsinks for ram modules (like these , about...

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It seems the "error" has been corrected I guess it was too good to last

less than 150 shipped ? I'm envious of you US-fiers

Quote: Originally Posted by Tobrew I've been planning to build one just like this and just might use your PCB. I notice that R4 and R5 are jumpered. Why? Also, what are the values on the other resistors? Does this follow the standard CMOY resistors? Thanks for the great post Guzzler...

Thanks for the info, Guzzler and 00940. Internet shops in Europe for cheap and/or high quality pcbs are definitely welcome.

you're welcome, glad it worked

I did a try (sorry can't make a direct link)

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Quote: Originally Posted by Agent69 b) Also, in researching the PIMETA on Tangent's website, I came across a statement that says: "op-amps can be biased into class A". Can someone explain to a newbie what that means? by Tangent himself http://www.tangentsoft.net/audio/opamp-bias.html

I really like your board, Guzzler (with tle2426), it's kind of cute I had started adjusting it for my polypro input caps and pot (Alps Rk097) in eagle, but with 18€ as minimum price for a drilled board at my local shop, being too lazy to etch it myself, in the end I went back to perf/proto...

Quote: Originally Posted by philodox this may be a horribly stupid question, but I thought as you got louder the dB lowered? At least that is the way it works on my wifes panasonic stereo... 40dB is fairly loud, 30dB is very loud and 20dB is too damn loud If you consider dB SPL...

Quote: Originally Posted by Glassman you're right, there's just one oscillator that was my impression, still I think it's safe to assume it doesn't resample, taking into consideration listening results by Lan and the words of an Emu rep. who denied any resampling in a 1212/1820...

ehm, it's just me or the clock circuit is different from that in 1212m/1820m ? great scan lan, thx

Quote: Originally Posted by ooheadsoo That's because the 1820 has the functionality that a pro is looking for without paying that premium for the better dac. Many people don't care all that much for budget oriented projects. you have a point, however, the way I see it, in the...

Another review maybe worth having a look at: DigitLife funny how creative regional offices are sending 1820 cards to review sites and not the better performing (in measures, and hopefully subjective listening) 1212m/1820m

Quote: Originally Posted by aos How did you find that information? Searching www.rscomponents.com for 400-7140 or 2183 does not yield anything. You can find it searching any of the european country-specific pages listed in the root page www.rs-components.com : for example...

Quote: Originally Posted by tangent Careful reading of the RS page shows that the 2083 series is a switch-mode supply. Urgh, a switching supply ? Guess it was too good to be true The 2183 is unfortunately even bulkier than the 2083. I really wish we had in Europe something...

Quote: Originally Posted by ufokillerz according to TI, http://www.ebv.com/home.phtml has them but you have to call Thanks for the info. From their page it seems that the minimum order is 50 pieces ( if nothing else, I guess 25 stacked in each channel wouldn't fit a Hammond case...

Quote: Originally Posted by guzzler the Mascot should be okay, and you can always upgrade to a TEPS later if you want. If it's your first project, it might not be a bad idea to not mess around with mains voltage as well! You sure have a point , I hope anyway my long forgotten...

I've been searching in Italy for a 220V linear regulated wallwart similar to the popular Elpac for a PIMETA I'll be building (soon, I hope). In RSComponents I found this: 400-7140 (Mascot 2083) Does anyone think it might be comparable (in noise rejection) to the Elpac ? Or I'd better go for a...

Converter is the common AK4524, so I guess it's not so different quality wise from Audiophile, EWX, 6Fire. It seems the differences with EWX are basically : balanced 1/4 jacks instead of RCAs SPDIF instead of TOS-Link (even though, if I'm not mistaken, you can have SPDIF in EWX also, by...

I am considering the 931 or the Senn 590, I'm not sure which one would suffer less being powered by a "humble" projectstudio mixer (Behringer 1604). Also, which one is expected to be more tamed in the highs (60%progressive rock , 40%orchestral scores) ? Thanks a lot for any comment on these...

I'm going to get my first "serious" pair of headphones and I've narrowed down to either the Sennheiser 570 or 580 : I usually listen over long periods to music like that by King Crimson, Radiohead or solo piano(classical, jazz), so important is comfort factor and sound not overly aggressive...