Wait for a "used" tda 1543 Starting point systems, the difference with other implementation will be evident:minimal design … You will lost almost anything if you resell it 100 bucks compared to many thousand bucks paid with these other dacs like the crane in the illusory pursuit of an illusory perfection, musicality is not perfection of sound frequencies...For me I cannot imagine on what count the musicality of this dac can be improve and which details it does not musically reproduce... If it can be improve then at which cost in money and in the necessary trade-off implied in the added electronics complexities?...For example with my headphones and speakers I listen to 3-d holographic natural musicality, this dac make it possible because it is true to the files or the cd reproduction, but it is cleanliness that gives me that ultimately, and this dac does not interpose himself between the cd or the files and the speakers or headphone...It is like seeing a scenery without windows or frame, not an artificial"clean" sound, but music without frame...At the first listening this dac sound like it lacks details for example, but the details are here now with the same dac why? My system was not clean at this times...This dac though sound natural the first times I listen to it and it sound more natural and realistic now with cleanliness of the audio grid and the electrical grid... For sure if you have higher cost gear, very costly amplifier, and speakers and headphones, it seems ridiculous to buy a few bucks dac to pairing with....But the proof is listening and cleaning the audio grid and electrical grid... ok I apologize for my rant...Only my good intentions and the fact that you will loose nothing if you count me wrong at the end... Tda 1543 chip or tda 1541 sound different in different implementation then it is necessary to listen them before choosing...For me I bet on the more minimalistic design and the lowest noise threshold..
Some dac very very costly one are only laboratories in the making where the sound is worked in complex electronics and the microscopic improvement in "details" , costly indeed, are paid by the willing customers in a race toward the "perfect" sound... But the "perfect sound" does not exist only music exist for my ears...I bet more on the methods to get cleanliness at low costs with a minimalistic more than good cheap dac like this french dac… And i won...
Easy to resell if you does not want it after listening to it...
Money for me now, after 7 years here and many experiments in audio, does not always suffice to buy audio musicality, I know better, cleanliness is the ultimate goal for achieving that and minimal design beat complexities sometimes toward this goal...
