What ADC and/or DAC are you using?

I have a Dacmagic (the one just superseded by DM+). Into this goes ALAC either from iPod classic via Onkyo digital dock, or optical from iMac. The DM goes to my Solo ULDE.

Reading with great interest about the GSP DAC in development! I hope it's going to be included in the loan programme once completed, so that I can compare it to the DM and then... Well, we know what happens next

Chris, we're designing it with the PSU1 (newest version) in mind, and inside the DAC prototype we can already count 8 voltage regulators.

I currently use at home:

It cost frayed nerves and £10,000.00 to get the PSU1 through the safety approvals process. I don't know what other manufacturers do, but we've to be very careful not to change things too much or we'd be paying £10K at every turn. It's OK if £10K is loose change but it's a lot of money to us.

For example, we have IEC approval so you'd think we could simply shove say 4 in a big box and wire the mains input to an IEC on the back? Wrong! That constitutes an unapproved mains product that would have to be tested for approval and, yes, you guessed it, another £10K please!

By the looks of it other UK/EU manufacturers just shove a CE mark on their power supplies/equipment with built in power supplies and that's that. Somehow they can get away selling such gear world-wide, but somehow we can't. Mysterious isn't it?

Perhaps there's somebody out there who maybe wants us off the scene? I know of one who stirred the brown stuff, causing me to have to go through the process in the first place. But you see, he, like the others, is a rich guy, and I'm not. Ever heard of the glass ceiling? You now know who controls it - the rich guys!