SPDIF or AES/Ebu interface

[Michael Buchstaller]

>> I don't see what gains you would get from having a tube dac.

it´s just for fun !

>However, it would be fashinating to learn if someone where able to do a full-
>tube DAC, it's characteristics, it's schematics etc. It does not sound like
>a big commercial hit thought.

for sure not. One triode as switch and one as cathode follower makes one tube per bit.
24 bits in stereo accounts to 48 tubes; and some more for the P/S and output amp.
Surely not cheap. I did have problems in finding 50 equal sockets and tubes for it.


-Michael Buchstaller