August 30, 200718 yr Been browsing the Digital Asylum aimlessly and have found people talking about this Altmann Attraction DAC. What the hell is this? Why haven't you all told me about it? Anybody heard one? At least I know they didn't spend most of their budget on the case. http://www.mother-of-tone.com/attraction.htm
August 30, 200718 yr Author is that the thing that uses a car battery? no thanks. yup, car battery. speaking of power, I got my brick wall in today, its great! believe it or not, it has almost completely eliminated the ever-present hum on my Bellari. Only when I have no music playing and my pot at max can I just barely hear a tiny bit of hum.
August 30, 200718 yr yup, car battery. speaking of power, I got my brick wall in today, its great! believe it or not, it has almost completely eliminated the ever-present hum on my Bellari. Only when I have no music playing and my pot at max can I just barely hear a tiny bit of hum. I lub my clean power.
August 30, 200718 yr At 750 EURO for the base model I think I'll pass. And postjack, you realize that most of the DIY power supplies that we use are far superior to batteries, right?
August 30, 200718 yr Like the BYOB amplifier, the complete electronic assembly of the Attraction DAC is vibrationally optimized, as the pcb is flat-press-mounted on a specially treated spruce-board. This construction is time-consuming during manufacture, but improves sound quality, as all components are mechanically coupled to a musical sound board. Uhh..
August 30, 200718 yr Author At 750 EURO for the base model I think I'll pass. And postjack, you realize that most of the DIY power supplies that we use are far superior to batteries, right? Yeah, pretty pricey for a circuit board stuck on some wood. No, I don't know anything about DIY power supplies, or car batteries for that matter. ahm lernin tho.
August 30, 200718 yr Yeah, pretty pricey for a circuit board stuck on some wood. No, I don't know anything about DIY power supplies, or car batteries for that matter. ahm lernin tho. Maybe if the wood was nice, but spruce edit: p-jizzle only because you're my homeboy, here's a link to someone on Hfi using it: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=246541&highlight=k1000
August 30, 200718 yr About $1000 for a non-oversampling DAC on a block of wood. Uh, no thanks. I'd much rather go for the K & K Audio DAC kit and get one of the DIY guys to assemble it and case it up for you if you can't build it yourself.
August 30, 200718 yr get a EMU 0404 USB ... pretty damn decent sounding little dac/amp for the $160 it costs
August 30, 200718 yr Yup. Straight from the horse's mouth on diyAudio. I don't understand the point of all that other hardware for something that has such high distortion and, in this configuration, probably a nice bit of aliasing too. Then again, I'm not an 'NOS' faithful so maybe I just don't 'get it'.
August 30, 200718 yr Perhaps things would make more sense if you listened with your ears instead of a spec sheet?
August 30, 200718 yr Actually what would make the most sense is that the dac is a pos because I consulted a lawyer and he told me the dac is a pos.
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