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I am about to start messing about building something cheap to sit between computer and amp, call it what you want. It is a Chinese DAC PCB and USB to SPDIF and other bits that sound pretty good to me, with me playing with power supplies and analogue output. It will sit in a PSU box for now. When content with it I will get a couple of your ears involved, aiming at under £200.

No controls, no switches, no headphones, no lights. It is a black box that does what it does.

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:guiness;

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I'm already drooling, Doc. :clap: :dance: :grin:

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It might not be that good, it is not my expertise.

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Digital circuits all seem to benefit enormously from clean and powerful PSU's.

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Nah! just talk to the designers all they need is a wall plug power supply :roll:

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Sneak preview from Muppet Labs R&D department.

First test model of the new NVA TMB (Thingy Mi Bob) digital processor.

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:lol: In yer dreams, I wouldn't know where to start, once the signal goes from wiggly to ons and offs I lose interest and the will to live :|

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Dont take this the wrong way. Doc.....
But (despite deposits) ya couldn't even build us a CD player.

So hows this gonna work....... :?:

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Much different project. CD player required MINIMUM INVESTMENT for me to do it, didn't happen. This doesn't, parts a dead easy to find and buy, jobby is dead easy. No donor unit required which was main problem with CD player. AND Jammy don't rewrite history. The CD player was a response to you lot keeping asking (NAGGING) me, so I said well OK but its up to you lot, and it was you lot (not enough of you) that fecked it up. Again this is different.

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