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You guys make nice Dac's. This project have never been intended to be nice looking. Its built in a wooden MDF cabinet, that I just painted black. The caps is changed to Black Gate NX 1000uF. They are to big to fit. Thats why it looks messy:) Transformers are Noratel 80Va each. Initially the dac plays beautiful with very high resolution and detail. Miss a litle depth, but I can not make any judgement on this before the dac has played some hundred hrs. This is typical for the BG caps when new. But....a good thing; The dac is 100% disturbance free.  Edited by user Sunday, June 7, 2009 11:09:24 PM(UTC)
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It is not how it looks, but how it sounds that matters. :) I don't think it looks bad anyway. :)
Enjoy!
Cheers!
Russ
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Thanks Russ,
The DAC has now been in constant operation for 48 hrs.
I placed myself in listening position to find out if things had "loosened up" a bit.
It definately had!
This is, with good margin the best DAC I ever heard! Cost no object!
Consuidering that the BlackGate NX caps needs 5-600 hrs of operation before they delivert their full potential, it will even get better.
Thank you very much for designing and making this DAC avaliable to us!
Erland
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Erland,
The BG's are the red caps in the PSU's?
I thought that famous burning in time of BG were restricted to the N series and only when used as coupling caps.
Nice work,
Nic
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Thanks Nic,
My experience is that it goes for all BG caps.
Of this reason I only use them in "always on" equipment.
This DAC does'nt even have a power switch that can tempt anyone to turn it off:)
For my valve pre and power amps, I stay away from BG and build with film caps even if it means they grow big.
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