tony wrote:Glad I am not the only one wondering what it is.
I had a moment of madness earlier in the week also but I think it should be easier to identify. Before you ask Nigel my hands are shaking from excess coffee drinking hence I haven't finished soldering the flip flop yet!
Yes I've one of those too
Great grinder
Don't drop it on your toe though
she's all old skool eng
sd card player, modded soekris dac, class a lifepo4 amp or gb class a/b amp, diy open baffle speakers based on project audio mundorf trio 10's
nige2000 wrote:
Soekris 1101 consumer dac and headphone amp
Sounds ok
It's USB powered with dc dc converters
Needs more modding than had anticipated
Think he's gone down the convenience route
Thought it might have been Soekris alright but could not find it on the Soekris website.
Looks like a nice all in one unit with isolation and DDC.
Had a few moments of madness lately as well.....new JCat Femto USB card, PPA OCXO SD card drive and Startech 100m 4 Port USB 2.0 Over Direct Cat5e/Cat6 Ethernet Extender System with USB pen drive for music.
Did a bit of internet digging and I see on diyaudio Soekris and Diyinhk seem to go at it occasionally. I understand now where you guys got all the ammo for the various directions taken over the last year. This looks like a nice cheap R2R dac but maybe Nigel got that already.
nige2000 wrote:
Soekris 1101 consumer dac and headphone amp
Sounds ok
It's USB powered with dc dc converters
Needs more modding than had anticipated
Think he's gone down the convenience route
Thought it might have been Soekris alright but could not find it on the Soekris website.
Looks like a nice all in one unit with isolation and DDC.
Had a few moments of madness lately as well.....new JCat Femto USB card, PPA OCXO SD card drive and Startech 100m 4 Port USB 2.0 Over Direct Cat5e/Cat6 Ethernet Extender System with USB pen drive for music.
the problem with following rb2013 is that he uses foobar2000 as the source so it's compromised from the start and he's just trying to rebuild what foobar2000 has damaged.
sbgk wrote:
the problem with following rb2013 is that he uses foobar2000 as the source so it's compromised from the start and he's just trying to rebuild what foobar2000 has damaged.
He is good for trying new stuff and I think he is holding back a bit with the F1, there are better DDC's out there now from DIYINHK.
The Startech setup is really good and it just marginally beats the PPA OXCO CF Card drive for storing and reading the music files into RAM.
Do not use foobar myself, still on wtfplay with custom player under development which bypasses ALSA libraries and goes direct to Linux kernel, sounds very good with all the added USB stuff, hopefully someone will develop a good solution that does it all at a good price in the coming year.
sbgk wrote:
the problem with following rb2013 is that he uses foobar2000 as the source so it's compromised from the start and he's just trying to rebuild what foobar2000 has damaged.
He is good for trying new stuff and I think he is holding back a bit with the F1, there are better DDC's out there now from DIYINHK.
The Startech setup is really good and it just marginally beats the PPA OXCO CF Card drive for storing and reading the music files into RAM.
Do not use foobar myself, still on wtfplay with custom player under development which bypasses ALSA libraries and goes direct to Linux kernel, sounds very good with all the added USB stuff, hopefully someone will develop a good solution that does it all at a good price in the coming year.
that sounds interesting any idea when that version will be available ?