$50 DAC with swappable opamps paired with WIIM MINI run through WOPL 400 and PL3300 preamp.

I looked over at Digikey, I have an account of course. They don't want but like 20.00 for three shipped cut tape so I figured I will buy them and compare them physically to the ones from Ali. Just see. As you all said with a little more reading and research I see these are Brown Burr chips, Texas Instruments. They are manufactured in USA not in China. They never made them at all in China so getting them from there they are almost definitely fugazi. Anyhow, I will have the adapters from those and if they are acceptable I can use them with the Digikey op amps if I decide to do it. Thank you guys for alerting me to this. Fact is I figured everything, I mean just about everything electronic was made in China anymore so I never even considered that the op amps may be fake. Live and learn.
 
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VSAT88 said:
I guess the way it's going if I don't learn to solder SMD to adapters and such I ain't gonna be working on about Jack shit soon anyway. Thanks for the link.
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There is always the joy of working on pure surface mount . . . 0402 and 0603 series resistors and such (al least to me) feel like replacing the testicles on a friut fly, bit it can be done. :-)
 
I bought one of those microscopes with the LED screen and it was not all that terrible expensive either. Doesn't matter if I can't hold my hands still enough from shaking while I try to do the job and that is my problem now. Medication I have taken for years has my hands shaking. About the time I grew up enough to afford the equipment to do the work I always wanted to be able to do now I am in too bad of shape to do it. However, some days are better than others and if I ain't off in my fucking head somewhere on a day my hand are cooperative then I heat up the iron. I ain't gonna lie, I admire the hell out of you guys that can do this electronic and mechanical work on all these amplifiers and tape decks. I am fucking jealous of you too.
 
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