I just ordered a new DAC in kit form from an eBay seller. My old Assemblage DAC 1.5 is decent but is strictly 16/44.1 and I wanted something to play hi-rez PCM up to 24 bit x 192 kbps.

What I order below is a complete kit except for the case: read about it HERE. By all rights it ought to sound like crap, but we shall see. I'm extremely impecunious at the mount so this is the most kind of money I was prepared to spend.



When I've got this installed in the case I'm making, and have determined that it works, I might spring a few more bucks to replace the common-place NE5532 op amp with this dual Burr Brown OPA627 unit. I had the original op amps in my Assemblage replace with OPA627 for a worth-while improvement.