Dacs equipped with AKM chips will see a price increase?

[jmwant]

The affect of the disaster at AKM factor is eventually hitting the hifi market. The prices of dacs will go higher.

Disaster At AKM Factory Affecting Product Prices From 1st January

[MadGman]

Yes.

Gosh this's not good at all

Seems everyone’s safe though

2020 strikes again: AKM Factory Fire / Asahi Kasei Microsystems effectively out of business

I´m late to the news, but AKM Japan chip factory effectively burnt down, which means that one mayor supplier of high-end DAC chips is taken out for at least a year. So if you consider to buy a DAC with an AKM chip, don´t wait too long. Availability will plummet and prices are going up already. AKM is supplying their DACs to RME, SPL, Topping, SMSL, DENON and Marantz, to only name a few.