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Sligolad wrote:What is it Nige??

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

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

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.

http://www.diyinhk.com/shop/audio-kits/ ... clock.html

Look like Pearse has gone nuclear for the new year. Just when I thought the new card on the LZ was closing the gap a bit with the Big7.

Sligolad wrote:

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.

Sligolad wrote:

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 ?

right
SHIFT REGISTER CLOCKING/RECLOCKING
anyone up for it?
fairly certain this will work
could be a big improvement
would be very surprised if it isnt

Nige, just to stop the tumbleweed, I'll pitch in

Wont the FPGA clock be out of synch with these replacement clocks - you're not thinking of routing the new clock signal back to the FPGA, are you?

Will this not mean that the BCLK & LRCLK will not be synched with the new clocks?

I'm trying to get my head around this