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Jim Williams · 9th April 2004

The Mytek's 8X96 opamps are Linear technology LT1358's. They are a dual buffered current feedback opamp with low noise, low offset, high gain bandwidth and 600 v/us slew rate. They have very low midrange distortion and no slew limiting. The A/D chip is the crystal CS5396. You guys need to look under the hood to see what you're buying here and pay less attention to the marketing.

Say, if you can whip up a simple + - 15 and 5 volt power supply you could get the newest adc from crystal, the cdb5381 eval board. I have one on order from Insight electronics and it only costs $150. It gives -110 db thd and 120 db dynamic range with toslink and s/pdif outputs. Drop some of those LT chips in there and.... you just might beat the big boys and put some cash back in your pocket at the same time.

Jim Williams
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9th April 2004	#30
Jim Williams Voiding warranties Joined: Feb 2004 Location: beautiful Carlsbad, CA Posts: 10,051	The Mytek's 8X96 opamps are Linear technology LT1358's. They are a dual buffered current feedback opamp with low noise, low offset, high gain bandwidth and 600 v/us slew rate. They have very low midrange distortion and no slew limiting. The A/D chip is the crystal CS5396. You guys need to look under the hood to see what you're buying here and pay less attention to the marketing. Say, if you can whip up a simple + - 15 and 5 volt power supply you could get the newest adc from crystal, the cdb5381 eval board. I have one on order from Insight electronics and it only costs $150. It gives -110 db thd and 120 db dynamic range with toslink and s/pdif outputs. Drop some of those LT chips in there and.... you just might beat the big boys and put some cash back in your pocket at the same time. Jim Williams Audio Upgrades __________________ Jim Williams Audio Upgrades