Ever Bought an Audio Product that was Stupid Good for the Money?

The best dac in the world, ratio price/ sound quality, the Starting Point Systems NOS dac, TDA 1543, with internal batteries...For 20 bucks on Ebay...If you dont want to buy the Denafrips Terminator it is the deal...


It is completely minimalistic design, then low noise...And with my audio system there is no perceptible limitations on all counts, details, dynamics, holographic soundstaging etc...

A dac is the most difficult piece of gear to buy... It is easy to buy low cost used or vintage top speakers, same thing for an amplifier... But a dac which is top musical quality? ( not a cheap microscope) Try to find another one at your own risk or try it.... :)

Stupidly good? For the sound quality? For the flexible capabilities and functionalities?

Yes the Sansui Au 7700 amplifier.... you can drive anything with the highest level of quality, and even equalize it...


Stupidly good for the price?

Yes bought for 20 bucks in a bid on Ebay a Dac almost impossible to beat, StartingPoint Systems NOS battery dac… So good that ends my quest...


I apologize to all... I realise I had already wrote about them here …. I suffer from Alzheimer it seems...

But probably my best audio piece was a Quartz crystal that I use by curiosity on my power conditioner  the rest is a long  history... 

I forget to say my SANSUI AU 7700 an amplifier  so flexible and so good I never look back to anything named amplifier after paying 100 bucks for it....

Starting Point Systems Dac NOS tda 1543... Minimalistic design with an internal battery that I charge with an external one...This dac paid few bucks on ebay is the best of my purchase in audio... Reason why ? try to get a very good dac at low cost... Practically impossible except this one....By the way some want to upgrade from it without knowing that the apparent limitation of this dac is not his own but most of the times the noisy audio system where it is embedded...Trust me almost all system are noisy even the costly one unbeknown to the owner... I know that because mine is cleaner, after my long time experiment with the noise floor...