Hi Reinhard,
My kit should be arriving next week. Should be fun to put together and listen to many of the hi-res material I have been collecting.
You are currently using capacitor or transformer coupled output at the moment? Which one do you prefer more, sound-wise?
I will have to use lab power supply to power the unit at first, but will slowly collect needed parts to build the proper power supply circuit which Doede says brings much improvement.
Excited to try something new!
Hi tuyen,
congratulations on your decision ! you will not regret... and yes, a proper controlled power supply will bring you the most, and that's the secret: right from the beginning... it is the same with analogue tape recordings: what you do not put in, you cannot get out...
well, it is not so as if we would not and have not experiment(ed) with analogue tape recordings, this is all extremely convincing (see Stefano's results over at his site), but at least us here have to face that we do not have a single master recording at home or of our own, and will never have... so we strongly have to care for all our favorite music which is - and will be - stored digital, and here within different formats... so, the research for us will concentrate further on DACs...
regarding your question: my situation is still the same since the last few weeks, and I am as content as I have never been before in my HiFi-life... my new single DDDAC 24 bit DAC is now burnt it (which indeed brought more amelioration than I initially expected: coherency, focus, naturalness... which really came totally to the point in combination with time alignment - so please do not forget about this)
meanwhile I have switched to Windows 7 and implemented the corresponding programs and drivers, and -although completely within the digital area - this still brought the reproduced sound (I wonder how) further in the intended direction bringing big satisfying smiles on one's face...
all the other things that are actually indicated on Doede's site are still very very new and only basically implemented in our systems, and we still have to try them all out in detail within our different systems, and that will happen during the next weeks and months, but at least at the moment everything is focused on the preparation to get it "just exactly perfect" for the "Japanese Session" at the beginning of December...
till then we will have the possibility to try out Doede's private DDDAC with the new Sowters... one has to keep in mind that the (normal) DDDAC 1543 is running with 1,6 Volt and the new DDDAC only with 1,2 Volt, so there an adjustment to 2 Volt is needed which is not yet done but will be, for both DACs...
so, we are in the same boat with experimenting, from my experiences I lastly always vote for "nothing in the signal path"...
let me wish you happy building, and please tell me about your results...
P.S. I have read that Angelo meanwhile has switched to Jean Hiraga amps and is extremely satisfied... so, why don't you follow ? If I have it right in mind then you had already started and bought all the necessary parts quite some time ago, didn't you?