I've managed to get my Buffalo II up and running over the past couple of days, and contained in a temporary case (the box my AKG K702's came in ) until I get round to ordering a proper enclosure and getting panels cut. I am very happy with the results, not done A-B's between this and my old DAC yet, but I am pretty sure there is a very noticeable improvement :d/ Thanks Brian and Russ for producing such a quality DAC.

Just got a couple of questions:

1) When connecting a 4-pin XLR chassis socket to the left and right balanced outs from IVY, do you just use the + and - and leave the GND empty? Or should you do something like solder a GND from each to the body of the connector?

2) When I measure the current headroom on the placid while under load (music playing) it constantly varies +/- a few (maybe upto about 5 or so) mA. Is this normal? The current headroom from the placid BP seems to stay much more stable.

3) From the placid, I am currently powering the Buffalo-II, and toslink module. I only bought one placid (and a placid BP obviously) and a 4:1 s/pdif mux board. Can I also power the mux with the same placid as the toslink module and Buffalo? If so do I just run all three sets of wires out of the VDC out terminals?

Really appreciate some answers to these.

Many thanks