Feb 13th, 2025: Quick Update on availability: Winter seems to be the time where people build DACs (or other audio gear đ)… I have seen an unexpected surge in demand for the DDDAC1794MK3 kit at the webshop from ” Audio Creative ” (the Duch company who sell the kits) You might encounter that the DAC kits are…
Introduction It is in the name DDDAC… I have spent so many years on DACs, it was about time to follow up on my curiosity on R2R ladder DACs. Not the ones inside a chip – we know them well in the meantime – but the discrete ones. A decade or so ago, very…
Final clock upgrade for my DDDAC This is supposed to be the last and “final” blog about clocks. In the previous parts I did a lot of testing and reviews on all kind of oscillators for use in a DAC and for use with Ian Canada FiFoPi and Reclocker (The reclockPI). Ultimately, for me…
More background on this special DDDAC output transformer (OPT) Some History The problem I faced was the small residual DC off set between the DAC outputs (POS and NEG can have somewhere between 0 and 30mV max) This might magnetize the core and introduce more distortion and non linearity. I sought help with Brian…
Introduction Inspired by the many reports on the audiophile improvements when using UltraCaps (or super capacitors) in Audio applications, I decided it was time to start looking into this subject myself. For starters I wanted do some tests with it on my own DDDAC. Of course I am also interested in the technical aspects…