Fitz: I'm interested in the specifics of your music server.
What case and power supply are you using?
Do you use that machine for playback or for pure file serving?
If it handles playback:
- Is the onboard optical-out bit-perfect? How does it sound?
- How do you interface to the machine to control song choice?
I ask as I'd like to build a 24/7 dedicated digital media store / player with a touchscreen interface to a full-screen foobar2000 (or perhaps a custom application), ideally with no operating system visible.
An embedded system with built in hardware FLAC decoding would be nice, but that's probably far more of a challenge.
Fitz: I'm interested in the specifics of your music server.
What case and power supply are you using?
Do you use that machine for playback or for pure file serving?
If it handles playback:
- Is the onboard optical-out bit-perfect? How does it sound?
- How do you interface to the machine to control song choice?
I ask as I'd like to build a 24/7 dedicated digital media store / player with a touchscreen interface to a full-screen foobar2000 (or perhaps a custom application), ideally with no operating system visible.
An embedded system with built in hardware FLAC decoding would be nice, but that's probably far more of a challenge.
Information about the case is in this post, but I don't do playback directly from the server. I use slimserver with a Squeezebox 3 for the music playback side of things, as the only thing connected to the server is power and network.
My first zero defect and tidy cmoy build. It's so much tidier using pcb's than protoboard, this unit looks like a good diy amp rather than a bad diy bowl of spaghetti (my efforts with protoboards never did end up looking too pretty)
Thanks to Joshatdot for supplying me with a great board and a great kit
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Just finished this little baby for office use: a modified Kumisa III @ ±24V DC (with a couple of traces cut and some resistors changes).
... heavily heatsinking on the bottom, which allows quiescent current biasing at 60mA,
... and the guts
I'm not good when it comes to describing the sound, but in short... a very musical, laid back sounding amp without any sign of distortions, noise, hiss or hum.
It makes this hobby (DIY) so fun.
Ok, totally ordinary compared to whatever posted above, but I was bored and it was still nice and fun to wire up an old-fashioned CMOY. I call this "the Brick". Kinda crude, I like it. At least it's very well shielded! The idea was, I've got a spare enclosure here, and look, an old 24v power supply from a printer! Let's stuff an amp in there. Power switch is built into the headphone jack, found a nifty one at a surplus store. I couldn't find it on Switchcraft's site, maybe it's discontinued? Plug in headphones to turn it on... Oh, and it sounds pretty good too!
__________________ "Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee..." - J.S.Bach
Just finished this little baby for office use: a modified Kumisa III @ ±24V DC (with a couple of traces cut and some resistors changes).
... heavily heatsinking on the bottom, which allows quiescent current biasing at 60mA,
... and the guts
I'm not good when it comes to describing the sound, but in short... a very musical, laid back sounding amp without any sign of distortions, noise, hiss or hum.
It makes this hobby (DIY) so fun.
WHERE DID YOU GET THIS CASE?!?! I love it!
__________________ Sources: MacBook Pro, iPod Touch via my Apple Lossless iTunes Library DAC: Digidesign Digi 002 24/96 Interconnect: DIY 2ft RCA. 24 gauge 99.99% silver in teflon w/ techflex and nylon sleeving, Silver LOK Connectors Amp: Millett Max Boutique #2 Cans: Beyerdynamc DT-770 80ohm
I call this "the Brick". Kinda crude, I like it. At least it's very well shielded! The idea was, I've got a spare enclosure here, and look, an old 24v power supply from a printer! Let's stuff an amp in there. Power switch is built into the headphone jack, found a nifty one at a surplus store. I couldn't find it on Switchcraft's site, maybe it's discontinued? Plug in headphones to turn it on... Oh, and it sounds pretty good too! 
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