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No I have not as I'm not retarded enough to think that this could be good. DHT's as output tubes in a DAC? Since when was 10% THD in the source a good idea? I could also pose a question to you, have you heard anything that is properly designed and doesn't sound like ass?

I would recommend the Soekris dac as an upgrade to the Golden Gate. It is much better on its own than that pile of fail.

It's 8°C here today so you are welcome for a visit.

Ahh Lessloss...kings of snake oil. Best be avoided like the plague....

We all need that!!! My own version of the GRLV is slowly being assembled on my bench and when they come out ok I'll convert the design over to SMD for some future projects. Now I just need a pick and place machine...and solder paste applier...and an oven...

I tie everything together and even in sensitive circuits like the Carbon this is a non issue.

...and the real problem is that this shit doesn't actually sound good. They just don't have the experience to discern quality from the shitty stuff.

I'm just 150kg now so it is slightly more feasible...

Happy Birthday Tom!!

This stuff has just way too many similarities to Single Power for me to be comfortable. As for the mafia dac, Kevin and I were inspired by the Lampi crap so we are going to do just that. Hell why not use 845's for the tube output? Throw some caps on them and it will be alright!!!

I just attached these as the world has to see this garbage. The list price is 19000$ plus the dac's which are 2000$. Yup...2k$ for two ~200$ modules. A few highlights for me are the mains transformer glued upside down into the wood with exposed mains wiring. Other parts glued into the bottom plate and almost no connectors used anywhere. I really think that is the best sign of a hack, shit is just tacked together with no care and they hope for the best. I think we have a new Single Power on our hands or Mikhail moved to Poland.

I know...this is bad. Also no soda, coffee or anything like that. Just water...

Would it be frowned upon to use for instance a hardy sword made from damascus steel or something like that? I mean it might cut somebody in half but its a risk we are willing to take!!

Clearly!!! Since I don't drink any more I can be even more active in inventing new stuff for you to drink and "encouraging" more drinking.

Indeed, it is a discrete R2R dac but it has quite a few issues. Fine at the 300$ price tag but at 7-10K? Not so much...

While on the subject of crappy dac's... I was sent some internal pics of the R2R Lampazitor dac today (Golden Gate I believe but who gives a fuck). Well let's put it this way, Single Power was better built than this pile of fail but what makes this utterly glorious is the actual dac... So this is a multi thousand $ dac and what does the actual conversion... a Soekris DAM1021 diy module. Yup... output directly off the end of that, fed into a relay volume control (again a DIY off the shelf module) and into what ever the fuck those tubes do. I'm waiting for permission to post the pics but this is utterly retarded...

Fuck!!! I won't be in NYC until March 24 and fly back April 10.

I just finshed the board and we might be able to fit some SMD caps but through hole are out of the question.

The 1uf/450V caps I use are pretty small. We might cram on some small film caps too if the board will allow.

Is this better than the Carbon? Nope, but that's also not why we do these things.

Maybe... I'll certainly build one as this all started as a birthday present to me from Kevin.

The DAC isn't bad but I've modified it quite a bit.

I'm working on an SMD version.

That's what I was thinking as well. Might be slightly awkward though...

The funny thing about astrolube is utter lack of understanding of anything. So tubes must the be the same as all other tubes, "cuz toobz be magical!!" As it happens and I've heard two of the top end Lapazitor dacs and what utter turds. Seriously, this stuff is so bad that you have to question the sanity of the people to claim this is high end or they just don't grasp the concept of high fidelity. You know, the annoying bit about the end result being as close as source as is possible... Let's not go into how Lapazitor is built or designed. One of the Carbon owners was adamant that this was the true solution to all DAC's and even sent me some of the correspondence with the owners. Yeah...their idea of a power supply design is to listen to two equally sucky versions and then pick the winner. Who needs to measure noise and shit like that? As for the MSB dac...well that is my dac in the pictures and I can safely say that everything he stated is utter bullshit. This unit was bought directly from a dealer and the only upgrade done to it was replacing the USB input as there was something wrong with the original one. The rest of it left the factory like that.