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RE: Please talk me out of making a stupid purchase

It is a 1984 design.
There has been a lot of discussion between Philips and Sony about bit depth and sample rate.
Philips thought 14 to be sufficient, Sony wanted 16 and Sony won.
The TDA1540 is a 14 bit DAC but with some tricks you can squeeze 96 dB dynamic range out of it.
https://www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/philips_tda1540/
https://www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/Philips-TDA1540-16bit-da-conversion/

It will roll of the treble substantially
https://www.bramjacobse.nl/wordpress/?p=2545

You can get NOS at half price using today AKM
https://shenzhenaudio.com/products/singxer-sda-2-dac-nos-native-decoding-dsd512-ak4497-decoder-headphone-amplifier
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