The Golden Gate DAC project is the answer to the hugely popular expectation from our dear customers, that we install in the DAC the best parts known to the Audiophile community. So called BOUTIQUE parts.

Well, we give to every DAC, especially the Big7, the best parts that WE consider sanely priced. But of course the golden fish could bring something even more sexy. That’s how this project was born.

GG is the Big7 DSD DAC made of the MOST expensive boutique parts chosen by our customers in their wish-list survey.

Features included::

1.Silver WBT solder used throughout

2.All wiring is 26 GA stranded silver in teflon

3.WBT gold / silver RCA output sockets or Furutech Rhodium RCA

4.Furutech RCA digital S/PDIF input or WBT

5.ATOM Vishay first capacitor after the tube

6.Mundorf M-Lytic HV electrolytes in second stage of PSU .

7.Mundorf Foil MKP capacitors in third, final stage of power supply just before the tube anode.

8.Metal-Film laser cut resistor MLT in Anode Load

9.CMC Teflon sockets with gold pin contacts for all 3 tubes

10.Output capacitors are the huge Jupiter-Copper 1uF caps or Audyn True Copper 1 uF, bypassed by Duelund Pure Silver caps or by Mundorf Silver Oil Supreme. Yes, a hybrid, best of both worlds, supposedly beating even pure silver one-cap solution.

11.Rectifier tube is after market Takatsuki 274B

12.Music Tubes are Emission Labs mesh 45 Anniversary Edition.

13.Digital input SPDIF capacitor is Mundorf Silver Oil Supreme .

14.Chassis / box is made of pure copper stamped and powder clear-coated for 100 years of immaculate shine. Copper provides also heat dissipation and the best EM shielding possible.

In excellent condition. Fully balanced with R2R / PCM/DSD decoding capability.

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