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If you read a couple of posts up, you will see that if you use a 9V 1000mA adapter your Mini DAC will be safer...
My Muse 4x TDA1543 arived just yet. Plugged it in and it said "PFT" as my cd player started reading a disc. Smoke emited from the RCA connectors...... That was quick, only lasted like 10 second. Dire straits aint that bad to make a dac go up in smoke. Havent opened it up yet.
Gonna send that guy a email.
Any of you guys had this dac die using an after market psu?
When i first got one of these several months ago, it ran warm/hot with the original psu,which later died after 2 weeks use(left on 24/7).
I then replaced it with a maplins 12v psu ,since then it never gets more than warm to touch,
3 months later i bought another of these dac's with elna silmic 2 output caps,i ran it off the maplin psu with no problems.
I measured the output of the maplins psu which was running at 11.98v,the psu that came with my second has never been used but i checked the output at 12.35v.
could it be the cheapo psu's that come with these units that's the culprit for all these failures?.
I realise the psu's that come with these may be different, as here in the UK we run from 240v,but its an idea.
Alright well, i figured $60 is worth it to see how this NOS sounds and if the metrum octave will be my cup of tea. I checked the DC offset on my amp and it starts highish (30mv+) then the meter counts down to about 5mv and hovers there throughout the powerband. Is this too much that i shouldn't short the output caps upon arrival? This was on the 200mv setting, anything higher and it was 0.0.
Alright well, i figured $60 is worth it to see how this NOS sounds and if the metrum octave will be my cup of tea. I checked the DC offset on my amp and it starts highish (30mv+) then the meter counts down to about 5mv and hovers there throughout the powerband. Is this too much that i shouldn't short the output caps upon arrival? This was on the 200mv setting, anything higher and it was 0.0.
You used the dacmagic's psu on this dac?
You realise that the dacmagic psu puts out a/c not d/c.
Definitely not suitable as far as i know.