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“2 BILLION farads...?”

That’s an extraordinary amount of filter capacitance for a DAC—2,000 farads. Such a massive power reserve would have a significant impact on the DAC’s ability to maintain stable performance under varying load conditions. Massive power reserves ensures ultra-clean power delivery to the critical digital and analog sections, minimizing noise and ripple while improving dynamics, transient response and overall sound quality.

Typically this level of capacitance is found in high-end power amplifiers rather than DACs, making the Galle II design quite unconventional. How does this sheer overkill in capacitance translate to real-world performance…only time will tell!

@grannyring - I am pretty sure that's 2000 MICRO farads. 

Don’t mean to nitpick, but the manual states "just short" of 2 billion micro farads.

"The Model II is the answer to a persisting question: what happens as power delivery approaches perfection?

The Model II physically separates the power supply, uses three custom transformers to feed three individual power channels, and employs just short of two thousand Farad of filtering capacitance. That is over two-hundred thousand times the usual values used for these voltages. While the care in implementation needs to be great, the result is a better, cleaner window into the music."

A Coda 16 has 280,000 micro farads of capacitance, and it supplies 100 amps of current-per channel. In bridged mode it provides 600 watts. Seems rather excessive for a DAC to need 7,000 times this amount, unless there is typo? But what do I know about designing hifi? (don’t answer that)

I hope it utilizes bleeder resistors; it would be unpleasant to be vaporized when poking around inside something like that.

This Galle DAC is certainly interesting (both Mk I and II), and cool looking in a retro/deco Fleetwood Sound or Fern & Roby sort of way. I suspect it may look even better in person.

I will be interested to hear what the initial reviewers think of it. There is certainly a lot of money invested in the casework and I am always a little suspect until I can actually see the insides of something - I should probably live in Missouri.

I still haven’t heard anything that makes me want to replace my Mojo Audio X SE with nano-crystalline chokes and AD-1862N-Z chips, including the Tambaqui or the Merason DAC1 MkII. Totaldac is on my list to try if I get the chance but I will wait on considering the Galle until more information comes out.