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In Reply to: RE: The Best Way is posted by E-Stat on May 09, 2017 at 07:52:38
Too many audiophiles get hung up on having the latest DAC chip with overly optimistic specs on it's datasheet. These specs are rarely achievable in the finished DAC product.
Even with a great DAC chip the finished DAC can sound pretty bad if it's not well implemented, and the analog stage is oh so important. I would take a DAC with an outdated DAC chip any day over one with a whizbang new chip of the week that is poorly done.
I have a few examples with personal experience that I won't go into here but you're absolutely right!
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"I would take a DAC with an outdated DAC chip any day over one with a whizbang new chip of the week that is poorly done."
Yep.
Lots o' Wimas, FETs and a gaggle of R-cores. :)
But I got 8 ea. Burr Brown/TI PCM1704U-K multi-bit ladder DAC chips.
Think I can find room to hide a Raspberry Pi in there somewhere and connect directly to the I2S input?
Might try. Guessing they can spare a clean 5V at 1A or so without missing it.
That is the great Audio-GD Master 7 with its old old old 1704 multibit chips. Great dac
Alan
Its a keeper for sure....even decades into the future I can't see getting rid of it.
Although some lucky person did get my Ref 7, the Master 7 little brother for a great bargain.
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The Master 11 lives next to my easy chair in the living room where it mostly is hooked up the the S/PDIF connection of the Pi/HiFiBerry Digi+ Pro.
It's the Master 11 that I would like to figure out how to plant the Raspberry Pi into. Back 40 years ago when I was working 'at the bench' 8 hours a day, it would have been a cake-walk to incorporate the Pi into the Master 11 chassis.
Can you imagine how sweet it would be to plug ethernet in the existing RJ45 jack that currently serves as the RJ45 I2S input, find 5V somewhere inside to power it with, and take the I2S right off the Rasperry Pi main board and solder the lines wherever they are supposed to go inside the DAC and be able to switch to the I2S input port and have it play?
Would be sweet!
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