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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.I wondered if it's not aluminium, it was very soft when I drilled a new hole for the clear wires
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.well done on twisting the wires, should have been like that from the start, though wasn't me who suggested it next step for me - take...
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.thought you were joking, but here is a lampizator with plenty twisting going on, terrible placement of transformers though, maybe he...
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.put it back together (it's a tight fit putting it back in) and lasted about half a track, impressive noise without the mod, but not...
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.I'll put it back together and see if it goes back to being a muddled sound, think they possibly bodged the transformer installation, the...
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.spent plenty of money on CD players over the years, playing wav files from memory is what I do these days, though still have CDs and...
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.it introduces it's own noise though and if it's not being used then it's always on creating noise for everything else
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.not heard about twisting power cables before, think I'll keep that for signal cables further mods removed clock and bluetooth cables...
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.the most obvious thing to mod is to remove the 2 hulking great transformers from the case seems better slam, smoothness, solidity and...
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.using kernel streaming (ks) via usb, only 32 bit seems to work and safe mode off seems to sound better more relaxed sound
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.with the R26 will the streamer/ethernet be a debian/alsa route and playing via spdif/i2s/usb be more of a hardware xmos fpga route ?
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.thanks, interesting thread
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.has anyone tried to clean up the USB using fibre the same way as the FMC ethernet mod ? Think there are USB to fibre convertors and...
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.why do you need a fuse, has anyone ever blown a fuse ?
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sbgk replied to the thread GUSTARD DAC-R26 Balanced Decoder R2R+1Bit Dual Native Decoding Music Bridge.guess the benchmark for the R26 is to somehow play a wav file from the internal sd card, thus negating any transport issues, once you've...