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Re: Dragonfyl DAC

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On Saturday, 3 Dec 2016 10:02 AM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> wrote:
>> On 29/11/2016 11:46 AM, felix wrote:
>>> a lot of money just to get digital headphone audio!..
>>>
>>> http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Audioquest-DragonFly-Red-Portable-USB-DAC-Preamp-Headphone-Amplifier-/371800939955
>>>
>> Must be expensive paint, the black one is "only" $150.
> Out of curiosity I looked into audio DACs a couple of weeks ago.
> I've managed to forget almost every detail in the mean time, but
> I think the DAC chips from specialist Hi-Fi DAC IC manufacturer
> ESS (their chip used in this product) ranged in single quantity
> prices from around $10 to $80 depending on the model. Bulk
> quantities would normally be much cheaper.
>
> I guess I might try to find my bookmarks later and look up the
> value of the ESS Sabre 9016 chip in this.
>
> There are lots of cheap pre-amp boards with ESS decoder chips
> on Ebay for $10-20. Cheaper than some of the chips theselves
> in single quanties, so I'd be very suspicious of authenticity.
>
> Actually forget that, I just spotted this in the suggestions
> on that Ebay page:
> http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/282009901345
>
> A USB DAC with an inbuilt valve headphone amp! Really?
>
> You want to avoid any tiny distortion caused by the regular
> output of your PC's sound card, just so that you can enjoy
> the distortion of a valve amplifier (that's hoping that the
> valves in this thing are actually connected to anything
> besides a heater supply to make them glow nicely)?

unique valves too. normal valves don't have internal colour displays

> And they've sold three of the things with this listing!
>
> It appears you even have to do the burn-in routine for
> them: "To Burn-in ,as the machine with new Tubes ,here
>         need about 1 month (every day about 2hours)"
>
> Or is that just so that the Ebay complaints period has time
> to expire?

:)

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Dragonfyl DAC felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-11-29 14:46 +1100
  Re: Dragonfyl DAC Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2016-12-02 06:41 +0800
    Re: Dragonfyl DAC Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2016-12-02 10:08 +1100
    Re: Dragonfyl DAC not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2016-12-02 23:02 +0000
      Re: Dragonfyl DAC felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-12-04 10:21 +1100
        Re: Dragonfyl DAC Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2016-12-04 14:29 +1100
          Re: Dragonfyl DAC Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2016-12-04 21:06 +0800
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          Re: Dragonfyl DAC felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-12-05 11:44 +1100

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