So, when talking "high-end" DACs....

[Tachikoma]

Nice leading the audience with the "We all know...". Feedback has its uses. I would agree from what I have heard in I/V stages (Jocko variants) that feedback isn't a good thing here. An I-out DAC really wants a dead short, and <50 ohms isn't a particularly good impression of a dead short... < 1 ohm would be much better, but certainly less than 3-5 ohms is easily doable. And is the TDA1543 well thought of (at least excluding Monica...)? I guess if it sounds good...

The monica uses the TDA1545, while the Lite DAC-AH uses the TDA1543.

[Filburt]

So, let me get this straight, for $1500 you get the sloppy recovered clock of the PCM2707 hooked into a low end, obsolete d/a converter pushed through what is probably a basic common-base i/v all housed in a generic off-the-shelf hammond?

Sign me up!

[lostonetr]

I've included a pic of my custom mouse pad, to avoid all the PMs I'll get if I don't. I learned my lesson on [H] a while back

it doesn't mess with the surface of the func pad to have the stuff printed on it?

[aardvark baguette]

The print is underneath the surface.

[Pars]

So, let me get this straight, for $1500 you get the sloppy recovered clock of the PCM2707 hooked into a low end, obsolete d/a converter pushed through what is probably a basic common-base i/v all housed in a generic off-the-shelf hammond?

Sign me up!