I've finished assembling of Buffalo III + IVY I/V + Placid HD BP + LCDPS + Toslink.
Although it is in the temporary paper box, it plays audio amazingly well.
Hopefully neither USPS nor custom office has lost the package on its way to the Europe,
but I've learned that nobody cares to update the tracking information. So only time
will tell if you got your package (i.e. two weeks by USPS First-Class mail).
There was lot of excitement and doubts during building this thing, but the
effort was worth of it. It took me about 20 hours - I'm not experienced builder,
and I've learned many new things.
Probably the most important thing was that shunted current is the current not
used by the device, i.e. "current consumed by load" = "CCS current set" - "current being shunted".
Also I was surprised that the "jumpers" for Buffalo must be soldiered and in the reality
those "jumpers" are tiny SMD zero Ohm resistors. Soldiering the first five was
a battle with tweezers, iron and big hands, but soldiering the next seven was fun. :-)
Thanks Russ and Brian, keep up the good work! Also thanks to LeonVB for the guide.
![Applause](/forum/Images/Emoticons/eusa_clap.gif)
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The power connector with on/off button is in the front; audio I/O are on the back.
I've mounted LCDPS module askew intentionally to keep power cables short, and also
to shield some EMI from transformers, but I only hope it has some positive impact :-)
![UserPostedImage](http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~miero/f/buffalo_dac_papierosa.jpg)
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