ProtoDAC TDA1387 X8 project

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Hi Mark, hi everybody, 
This is not related to the component shortage: I wish to informe you that I have seen a version of "parallel TDA1387" made with 4 IC only, but with discrete components instead of SMD components. I am trying  to buy a couple of them (to be wired in parallel) to test if those capacitors "sound" better. At the moment I have not been lucky finding them: may be that your chinese supplier knows how to find them, or somebody else, in the forum, can help in this way.
Best regards and thanks,
Francesco

I happened to come across the TDA1387 X4 module on Tabao and AliExpress. It is associated with JOSAUDIO (http://www.josaudio.com), a Chinese company that produced a TDA1541 DAC.  Here is another seller.