How is that working out? I'm not sure I'd put those MKT caps on top of the 'sinks' surely that would insulate them again? Love the Vishay 'Cap' feet though :-) Whats the sound quality like?

  Quote:     Rather simpler then that, they came with a self adhesive thermally conductive 'tape' on the back, just peel & stick :-)   The Dacs & regulator were probably fine, but I just don't like SS components getting hot and keeping them cool has got to be better for them...

I got mine from a UK seller (helps being in the UK :-) they offer it with several alternative output cap options (Elna, Nichicon, Philips, there may be others)   It seems though that every NOS DAC has a lot of heat to deal with it just goes with the territory it seems, though I'd say it was...

We have the same version, did you get the one with the Elna Silmic II output caps?   I tried aluminium Ram cooler heatsinks directly on each of the 1543 chips (instead of the plate) but wasn't happy in the fact they seemed to be even hotter then the plate, in the end I put the plate back and...

Thanks, I shall start at about 10V and play about a bit from there. However I just fired up the little beastie for the first time complete with dreadful switch mode supply and frankly I'm totally amazed. Right out of the box with no burn in it's showing my Rega a clean pair of heels!   Easy...

My Muse arrived today, I've not plugged it in yet as I wanted to check I out first, but it's the latest white board version and has the correct 3.3v regulator in :-) I ordered the version with Elna Silmic II output caps in to save a job (I shan't be running it without output caps no matter what...

Hello There all   First post, so hope I'm not butting in here.   Am currently reading my way through this thread and not wanting to miss all the fun I've ordered one of these today which will be plugged into my Muse USB/SPDIF box (which I got for that reason).   Seeing as how a...