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Re: Dragonfyl DAC

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On Monday, 5 Dec 2016 12:01 AM, Clocky wrote:
> On 4/12/2016 7:21 AM, felix wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> It's just an LED below the valve pointing upwards, not the valve itself.

Ok

>
>>> 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
        Re: Dragonfyl DAC Clocky <notgonn@happen.com> - 2016-12-04 21:01 +0800
          Re: Dragonfyl DAC felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-12-05 11:44 +1100

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