Comments on: Twisted Pear Audio Buffalo 32S high end DAC

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:32:27 +0000

OK, thanks, not so bad; your 100 man hours made me nervous!

By: jason

jason — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:18:24 +0000

Total parts cost for an equivalent build today would be about $1000. The front face wasn’t a lot of work if you have the right tools. Cut to length, rout the edges, sand, cut the holes, and finish. Maybe about 3 hours total? The rest of the build was a pain mostly in implementing the MUX, USB, Toslink, and Coax inputs along with the e24 circuit. Maybe 20 hours? For my own personal build, I only have toslink and no e24 circuit. Much simpler and quite a bit cheaper… probably $650 in parts. Hope that helps.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:32:46 +0000

Jason, could you highlight the major parts/costs – you need to buy more than just the buffalo board, right? Also, of your total man-hours, what part was creating that nicely finished face versus the core electronics build? Trying to get a better sense for whether I should try to take this on – THANKS.

By: jason

jason — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:04:17 +0000

Steve – the instructions aren’t great. But there is lots of support on the forums. Let me know if you have questions. Be happy to help.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:28:36 +0000

Hey, Jason, this is impressive. I’m a closet DIY, built some computers but never something like this. While I’ve located the “manual” for Twisted Pear’s new Buffalo II, it doesn’t provide the step-by-step instructions that I would need to really understand what to do. Am I missing something? Did you find any instructions like that? THANKS

By: jason

jason — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:49:27 +0000

Yes, it is version 1… but the 32S flavor.

I never did take a picture of the final layout and I don’t have the DAC anymore but here’s an in progress pic that is basically where it ended up.

I had the e24 circuit pieces on the empty space on the left though.

By: greg

greg — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:03:56 +0000

hi Jason

very nice work here !
I believe it’s a version 1 of buffalo
with direct output from the dac and no IVY evils
used ?
Could you post a layout of your dac inside ?
Here or directly to my email .

txs alot
and once again congratulation
marvelous job !!!

By: jason

jason — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:37:11 +0000

Sorry, I don’t have it any more and never did take a picture with the lid off. Let me know if you have any specific questions though.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:23:14 +0000

Nice work! I can’t believe you fitted all that into such a small box.

I’m also building a 32s with an AMB e24.

Just not sure what combination of outputs I can manage. Primarily it will power a pair of mono balanced First Watt F5′s.

I don’t suppose you can post a photo with the lid off? Would be nice to see how you done all that wiring.

Cheers,

alex

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:55:54 +0000

Nice work! I can’t believe you fitted all that into such a small box.

I’m also building a 32s with an AMB e24.

Just not sure what combination of outputs I can manage. Primarily it will power a pair of mono balanced First Watt F5′s.

Cheers,

alex