{"id":3528,"date":"2014-06-28T19:29:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T18:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2014-06-28T20:11:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T19:11:34","slug":"starlight-discrete-dac-build-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2014\/06\/28\/starlight-discrete-dac-build-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlight Discrete DAC &#8211; Build Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like doing the metalwork and perhaps this is the main reason why I ended up delaying the build. Gladly I finish all the drilling and milling required for the DAC. The output transformers were changed to Sowter 9062 (more to follow on this). The outputs have a differential as well as RCA outputs. 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height: 184px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like doing the metalwork and perhaps this is the main reason why I ended up delaying the build. Gladly I finish all the drilling and milling required for the DAC. The output transformers were changed to Sowter 9062 (more to follow on this). The outputs have a differential as well as RCA outputs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2014\/06\/28\/starlight-discrete-dac-build-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starlight Discrete DAC &#8211; Build Part 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[507,5],"tags":[568,603,611,790],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-starlight-cd-player","category-valves","tag-dac","tag-discrete-dac","tag-sowter-9062","tag-starlight-cd-player"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2r2tK-UU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3531,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}