[pila405]

Nothing on the 300$ range?

How is the Opus DAC in comparision?

 

[DoYouRight]

Buffalo dac is a refrence dropkick the face DAC it is not gonna be had for $300. Opus is great and sounds fantastic. Opus beats out most dacs in the range of dacmagic, and others around $500ish. The Buffalo has been favored to several thousand dollar DACs though.

 

[qusp]

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Originally Posted by Wilf /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've found, and others, that the buff does seem to draw a little bit more than it mentions in the manual. A shunt I was using to power the VA section fell over (fell to 4V) when set to supply 20mA more than detailed in the manual. Increased the current, and the o/p voltage stayed steady and stable at 15V. There is no problem with setting the current too high, apart from the reg getting warmer, and as it's approaching winter here in the UK, you can have your B32 doubling as a local heater! By the way, if you are powering the B32 with just the LCDPS/LCBPS supplies, I personally feel that you are missing a good chunk of what this dac is capable of doing, musically. I've used both the Simplistic Salas Shunt (over at DIYAudio) and Paul Hynes shunts, and they provide a substantially better musical performance than a LM317/337 based supply. I've not tried the new TP placid shunts, but I would consider that they provide a similar improvement over the basic LCDPS/LCBPS, and they also appear to be very good value for money.

yes, this is my feeling as well, i'm hoping the placids improve an already very nice dac. i'm also looking at some paul hynes bits and pieces for the dac board, but may focus more on output stage, such as a transformer based volume control, knocking out output and attenuation in one go or as Natonrice suggested building myself a diamond buffer. but first to actually get this thing in a proper box so I can post a pic

 

[DoYouRight]

diamond buffer? Did naton use that for his even though he runs it straight to the b22?

 

[nattonrice]

He does indeed run it straight to his b22.
Qusp was looking for ideas for driving his iems using the buff.
A unity gain/buffer at the output would be ideal I thought.

 

[qusp]

indeed, Nat does

as he has already just said

we have just been kicking ideas around for me, that give me a very nice output without having to build an entire new amp. I think I would definitely have enough room to simply incorporate it into the current case, and if not I have a few smallish hammonds that would work well

 

[BrianDonegan]

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A unity gain/buffer at the output would be ideal I thought.

Something like a discrete, balanced input module with a diamond buffer output stage?

 

[nattonrice]

Well what I refereed him to was the JISBOS.

 

[BrianDonegan]

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Originally Posted by nattonrice /img/forum/go_quote.gif Well what I refereed him to was the JISBOS.

Ah. I was thinking about this: Introducing Ventus - diyAudio

 

[nattonrice]

Hehe I knew I was missing something there

I missed that, thanks for the linky!

Edit: that looks to be your standard board size. Qusp, that would stack really nicely in your enclosure me thinks =]

 

[BrianDonegan]

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Ah. I was thinking about this: Introducing Ventus - diyAudio

Sorry for the shameless plug.

 

[stringgz301]

Been watching the TP site but don't see any word on availability of the kits. Any word?

 

[BrianDonegan]

We are currently redesigning the Buffalo, so it will be a little while before it is for sale again. You will like it, I promise. It will also remain ahead of the curve.

 

[Lil' Knight]

Any info on the redesign, Brian?

 

[BrianDonegan]

Well, it is in a state of flux, so I don't want to say anything that will not be true when it is done.