Hi Jaco,

Thanks, are there any components on the back side?

Those little chips might be DAC chips. A search on that part number didn't find anything useful. They would need to be scoped to find the proper pins. If those are the DACs and they have a 2v output they might simply be running that to the outputs. Probably wouldn't have much drive ability and distortion would vary by load. Also doesn't look like there is much (if any) filtering post DAC.

The Oppo 980 uses some type of barely labeled mystery DAC for its rear channels and a Cirrus 6 channel DAC for the rest of the channels. In the Oppos case that DACs output does go through a real line stage.

Thanks,

Shawn

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