Jkx@home » dac http://www.larsen-b.com Titanium Exposé Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:15:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Cheap DIY USB Tube DAC http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/414.html http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/414.html#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:30:16 +0000 admin http://www.larsen-b.com/?p=414 Continue reading →]]> Due to lot of homework, I haven’t found a lot of time to have fun electronic for some times. I decided to change this by building an cheap USB DAC with tube output.

There is a bunch of USB DAC on the market right now, but most of them aren’t really top quality. As I don’t want to loose some time to build the USB part, I decided to buy a USB DAC Kit. After a little search on Ebay I found this one :

This kit sports an CS8416+CS4398 combot plus an NE5532 output buffer, but as I want it to be a little audiophile, I will drop the NE5532 in favor of an simple tube preamp.

For the tube part, I think I will go for an 12AX7 or something similar. I really think 6SN7 are better, but this tube are overkill for an preamp I think.

Update, some links for the tube output :

/Enjoy tube sound

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