This DAC from China has completely blown me away!

[sounder]

As shown in the picture, this is a DAC decoder board from China’s Taobao, priced under 70 USD. Below are my questions:
How are they able to keep the price so low?
Who is buying such a large volume of this product?
Does the audio quality of this product truly meet the standards?

 

[DiggyGun]

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As shown in the picture, this is a DAC decoder board from China’s Taobao, priced under 70 USD. Below are my questions:
How are they able to keep the price so low?
Who is buying such a large volume of this product?
Does the audio quality of this product truly meet the standards?

So many questions for DAC that blows you away.

DG…

 

[jjbomber]

How are they able to keep the price so low?

They don't have endless health & safety dictators nor a diversity section to create endless paperwork and additional cost!

 

[BigH]

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As shown in the picture, this is a DAC decoder board from China’s Taobao, priced under 70 USD. Below are my questions:
How are they able to keep the price so low?
Who is buying such a large volume of this product?
Does the audio quality of this product truly meet the standards?

Who manufactures it? Taobao, seems to be a selling platform?

 

[RoA]

This DAC from China has completely blown me away!​

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Does the audio quality of this product truly meet the standards?​

 

[Gray]

See also the Khadas Toneboard DAC, available at one time for £70.
Same DAC chip and sound quality as from the 'top quality' DAC in my expensive UK-made amp.

 

[Vincent Kars]

TDA1541 is a DAC designed by Philips in 1979....

Philips TDA1541 - A Monolithic Dual 16-Bit D/A Converter - DutchAudioClassics.nl

On March 8, 1979 Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference called Philips Introduce Compact Disc in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

www.dutchaudioclassics.nl

 

[davidf]

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As shown in the picture, this is a DAC decoder board from China’s Taobao, priced under 70 USD. Below are my questions:
How are they able to keep the price so low?
Who is buying such a large volume of this product?
Does the audio quality of this product truly meet the standards?

Likely no CE certification compliance, no environmental compliance with regards to manufacturing or legal and safe disposal of waste, non compliance with how they treat their production workers, etc etc.
This pretty much goes for the majority of EVERYTHING that comes out of China, which most people in the U.K. purchase on a daily basis, whether it's a hi-fi component or a washing up brush.

 

[jjbomber]

Likely no CE certification compliance, no environmental compliance with regards to manufacturing or legal and safe disposal of waste, non compliance with how they treat their production workers, etc etc.

Which is why their economy is booming while we head into recession!