California Audio Labs CL-15 HDCD Player with digital input and 2 x PCM-1702 DACs from Burr-Brown

This is one of the best sounding players I have ever heard and if it had balanced output, I would never let it go.
Quality built and very reliable.
If anyone out there knows what the LAN expansion socket does, please let me know.

[@1320pass]

If you happened to have recorded more material on this CAL please share. I have an identical unit in my hifi rig and just love it. Always wanting to learn more. Thanks!

[@hear-net-au]

I have now bought it, so I have to fix it and hence, there will be another video on it

[@dkokalanov]

@@hear-net-au What was there to fix? I just bought one very cheap and I have to say it's the best player I've ever hear. Absolutely lovely and powerful sound. It should be upgreadable to DF1706. If that works I may also change the receiver chip from CS8412 to something like CS8416 and see if it would start accepting 96/24 from the digital input.

[@hear-net-au]

@@dkokalanov These upgrade are well above my pay grade. If I knew how to do it, I would fist upgrade my Wadia 16 to use PCM-1704s instead of PCM-1702s. But then one would have re-program the 3 FPAs that Wadia have put in there.

[@paulb4661]

Impressive reservoir, an amp could get away with with 12x2.2m/35; I'm curious about the weird form factor ones to the right, 4 in a row of large cirumference, but flat, somewhat like memory back up supercaps. What are these?

[@dkokalanov]

Isn't it easy to add a true balanced output when the output stage is dual differential one?

[@hear-net-au]

It is, if you are an engineer and you can design the circuit and then the board and then make that board. It is much easier to just buy a player already so designed.

[@michaelcruz7704]

What are those capacitors for? Co they are not usual

[@hear-net-au]

The ones close to DACs are ELNA 1.0MF / 5.5V. That is right, 4 x 1 MiliFarad

[@michaelcruz7704]

There are too many capacitors.