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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.

It will surely be done by 6pm on Monday!! I'll look into updating the board a bit. Might change it all SMD and into stereo channels.

What info, that is just a bunch of meaningless crap. I do love how the first paragraph goes completely against the choice to omit feedback, which clearly made this clusterfuck of an amp better. You do realize that low output impedance for electrostatics is desirable?

Yeah, reminds me of the WES vs. BHSE review somebody did. Two reviewers who didn't actually compare the amps head to head and of the two the BHSE was too warm and the WES neutral. Anybody who has listened to these two amps knows this is utter bullshit. This is far from an isolated incident...

Yup that's the correct complimentary part but who knows if they'll continue to make them. That said, they aren't extremely high voltage so they might be of use to the normal people...

I that might be just be correct. As for those "reviewers", they are pretty much why the market is so fucked up. Why people like Single Power, RSA, Cavalli, ALO, DNA, Woo, Wells, etc. etc. continue to operate. "How I feel" with no real basis for comparison rules the roost. Ohh and "I own expensive shit" actually means something to these people when it is meaningless as anything. Anybody can buy expensive shit, doesn't mean you know anything about it.

It will need some heatsinking if we are to run it at reasonable current levels aka. mafia style. That said, nothing too excessive.

Ahhh, yet another high end snob who couldn't afford to buy a clue. Buy anything with a high enough pricetag to continue that lie that he knows anything. Utterly pathetic.

Yeah, male PSU connectors leading from the PSU are a terrible idea. Otherwise it looks good.

I can't see any signs of regulation but those heatshrink "things" between the caps intrigue me. Might just be a CRCRC supply or something like that. Needless to say...pretty shitty in a 2K amp let alone something this expensive.

I just can't wait for the review to come on HF from a guy who was stupid enough to get those Woo monoblock piles of shit. Reminds me of when Ray got Skylab to review the A10 and we drove him into the ground for having zero electrostatic experience and thus...nothing useful to say.

That's exactly what it means in Icelandic.

That chassis is sure expensive but max 1k$ as they aren't doing one or two of them. As for the amp...the amount of suck on display is truly astounding. Also the sheer lack of proper engineering...

http://www.msbtechnology.com/amplifiers/headphone-amp-features/ Anybody want to guess what actually makes this thing tick? Look at all the bodges in a 37k$ amp...

There is no telling if something else is damaged so just enjoy that it works for now.

I use routing like this quite a bit and with no issues.

Might be a bad pot but it is probably something more serious. Still it wouldn't hurt to replace the pot as they don't age well

Yup, something like that. It adds a bit to the manufacturing cost but well worth it.

I can't see anything.

You route out slots through the board to prevent shorts. Much harder to bridge unintentionally if there is a slot in the middle. This is often used on power boards for extra insulation.

For a future board it might be a good idea to create some slots between the pads.

Yeah I need to make this official and the take all the sorb idiots to court here in Iceland.