Who Are Your Favorite DAC Designers?

DasguteOhr

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A most purposefull looking DAC there Stephan :cool:
Yes..has a special sound Germanium transistors with output transformers. hard to describe you must have heard it. who doesn't start tapping their feet doesn't like music or is dead. fun factor high
 
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very good construction, i hope the high cost of materials will be rewarded with good sound in the end. i prefer the simple circuits with a lot of iron.Novosibirsk Electronic Manufacturing (NEM)Audio View attachment 99284
Is NEM available for purchase anywhere? I didn't have much luck tracking it down.
 

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Is NEM available for purchase anywhere? I didn't have much luck tracking it down.
only available from the developer. no distribution as far as I know.
 
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Thrax Maximinus mk3, Rumen Artarski CEO and of course Ed Meitner of EMM Labs.

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NEM is made in Russia no?
 

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the last one that surprised me was the soekris dac board, lampizator use it at the baltic. directly behind resistance ladder with tube output stage, buffer or lundahl output transformer. sounds phantastic like a good analog performance. unfortunately only for diy builders. it took me a year to perfect it, then it plays in the very expensive league
who build a superdac themselves here

NEM is made in Russia no?
No.. he lives in germany last info i know past 3 years ago
 

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Lukaz without a doubt!

In solid-state circuits I also hear Omata San, of Sforzato is held in very high regard.
 

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I was thinking this is them?
Yes correct, Andrejs Staltmanis and Alexey Burtsev(owner) are nem audio as far as I know.
Nem audio in usa
 
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Another vote for Ted Smith, who BTW is also a really nice guy.
 
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Bruno Putzeys: Grimm Audio, Mola Mola Audio, Kii Audio
 
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Philips - love the TDA1541A :)
 

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Philips - love the TDA1541A :)
Wow, that takes me back in time to my first CD player, a Philips model that I bought in 1985. I think it used a variant of this chipset called the TDA1541, produced from 1984-88. The A version came a bit later.

 

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Wow, that takes me back in time to my first CD player, a Philips model that I bought in 1985. I think it used a variant of this chipset called the TDA1541, produced from 1984-88. The A version came a bit later.


Yes, the TDA1541 was the peak of the early R2R ladder DAC movement before Bitstream took over. Interestingly, Bitstream went on to become DSD and the R2R DAC technology is now very prevalent in high end DACs.

The TDA1541 is an incredible sounding DAC when you implement it well - without the corresponding digital filter of the time. Interestingly, Audio Note's Top of the line DAC (level 6) uses a similar vintage chip the AD1865.
 

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Philips - love the TDA1541A :)
Yes turn back the clock cambridge cd 3 cdm1 transport 4x td1541a.
looks like a pocket calculator (keys) played divine music i miss the sound a bit. 6299501065_0_g.jpg
 
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