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Post by julesd68 on Apr 24, 2019 16:09:12 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 24, 2019 16:10:19 GMT
Black is the new black and the old one  |
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Post by MartinT on Apr 24, 2019 17:03:19 GMT
When everything turned black, including cameras, I bloody hated it. Metal should look like metal.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 24, 2019 17:20:24 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on May 15, 2019 15:32:08 GMT
New from SMSL, the M300 using AK4497. Costs just over 200 quid. Rather eccentric looking and available in three colours ... LOL.  |
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Post by mikeyb on May 15, 2019 15:52:32 GMT
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Post by Slinger on May 15, 2019 16:18:12 GMT
Two clocks is good, but input and power over the same (micro?) USB port? I'm not so sure.
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Post by MartinT on May 15, 2019 16:37:50 GMT
Two clocks is good, but input and power over the same (micro?) USB port? I'm not so sure. Eek, that's not so good. You'll need a splitter in order to be able to use a decent power supply. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2019 17:13:26 GMT
Look guys for £200 its a good place to start, blimey the parts for the first stage of the psu I am working for my own dac cost a fair bit more than that!
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Post by Slinger on May 15, 2019 17:23:33 GMT
Look guys for £200 its a good place to start, blimey the parts for the first stage of the psu I am working for my own dac cost a fair bit more than that! For two-hundred-quid I'm not really knocking it, Tony, I'd just like to have seen separate power and signal inputs. It wouldn't have added a great deal one to the cost, one would have thought. As Martin said, if you wanted to use a LPSU with it then you'd be left without a signal input over USB. |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2019 15:42:48 GMT
Hi Paul
I was just me, sorry I usually get moaned at for suggest slightly more costly items, though not quite in the Brooky inspired price ranges!
For a starting point with a few little tweaks it will make a very tidy front end for a lot of guys I feel.
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Post by Slinger on May 16, 2019 15:55:02 GMT
Hi Paul I was just me, sorry I usually get moaned at for suggest slightly more costly items, though not quite in the Brooky inspired price ranges! For a starting point with a few little tweaks it will make a very tidy front end for a lot of guys I feel. There's nothing to apologise for, Tony. We each cut our cloth according to our means. I run what was, on release, a two-hundred-quid DAC (an SMSL in fact) with my Raspberry Pi setup, and my thought was simply that I wouldn't buy that particular two-hundred-quid DAC if I needed to replace it because of what I consider to be a very simple to fix design flaw. It also seemed a bit unusual, because I've had quite a bit of SMSL kit and it's always struck me as well made and well specced for the money. |
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Post by julesd68 on May 16, 2019 15:55:45 GMT
At the other end of the food chain, 50k will buy you the new Nagra HD DAC X
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Post by Slinger on May 16, 2019 16:03:20 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on May 16, 2019 16:09:59 GMT
You will be assimilated !
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Post by Slinger on May 16, 2019 17:04:38 GMT
For anyone thinking about saving up for a Nagra HD DAC X, by the way, it's a cool $65K, which is just shy of £51K.
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Post by petea on May 16, 2019 20:28:20 GMT
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Post by MartinT on May 16, 2019 20:32:53 GMT
Even being generous, that's £10k for components and construction, £40k for brand, R&D and distribution.
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Post by julesd68 on May 16, 2019 21:01:30 GMT
I do like how their gear still has a visual nod to their legacy products - reminds me of the Nagra sound recorder I used on a 16mm film production course many years ago. Superb, industry standard kit back then.
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Post by MartinT on May 16, 2019 21:05:21 GMT
You couldn't mistake it for anything else.
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