Jmcgrogan2- No-one is misinterpreting the Digital to Analog Converter chip to mean the Power Supply. Just don't understand how you can eliminate or exclude the Power Supply from the Digital to Analog Converter Chip Circuit. We are supposed to exclude any concideration of the Rectifying Power Supply Stage in discussing Tubes, fancy Caps or Resistors? If any of these are used in the Rectifying Power Supply, then they cannot be excluded from being part of the Digital to Analog Converter Chip Circuit. The Power Supply to ANY Circuit, IS PART of that Circuit! To argue otherwise, is being in denial of basic Electrical and Electronic Theory. There is no misinterpretation, bad English, or Drinking problem. There is simply YOUR inability to connect the Rectifying Power Supply TO the Digital/Analog Converter Chip Circuit. The Circuit will not work very well if it is SEPARATED from its Power Supply, but perhaps I am mistaken (hic!), and I need a whole HELL OF ALOT more booze to finally see things from your point of view!
Almarg- if you really are an E.E.- then you already know that the Power Supply to any Circuit, including an Digital to Analog Converter Chip Circuit, IS PART OF THAT CIRCUIT! Any distinction or interpretation WILL NOT CHANGE THAT FACT! You have got to have SOMETHING to conduct Current over the GAPS of your so-called "Distinctions" within a Circuit. Distinctions don't conduct current very well! I seriously doubt that your Distinctions would even insulate me from getting zapped if I were to touch a live circuit! Must I force you to actually touch the live Circuit of a Digital to Analog Converter Chip, and get zapped, before you will acknowledge that that Vacuum Tube Rectifying Stage DOES INDEED carry one hell of a punch? Since perhaps I don't understand English, I am mistaken there as well! If you want to continue working on live Circuits, thinking that Distinctions will insulate you from getting Zapped, perhaps I am indeed the Idiot for challenging your line of thought! Please, don't let me interfere with your work any longer!