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Turning a CD player into a DAC?

post #1 of 3
2/14/10 at 10:27pm
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am wondering if i can turn some old CD players i have into standalone dacs, remove everything that isn't needed?

I have a 15 year old sony



which sounds pretty decent actually, tad too much bass but otherwise great, and looking inside saw this...

the DACs seem to be ad712s and have film caps? and nichicon muse caps and stuff, seems to be seperate voltage regs also, elna silmics, etc...was a good deal for £10.

...anyhow is it feasible to strip the dac sections out of cd players, feed them your own voltage and digital signal ?
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post #2 of 3
2/15/10 at 4:51am
Better keep the CD-Player like it is and buy a gigaworks dac from ebay, add some line trannies to the output and then enjoy music
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post #3 of 3
2/15/10 at 9:03am
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oh i forgot to add, i'm not going to trash my cd players :P they are cheap but too nice to hurt with my non-existant (for now) electrical knowhow. model is a cdp-761 for reference.

just there's abolsutely tons of cd players out there, but yeah, they are likely using very budget dacs and if not certainly worth more to sell than break up.

i really must get round to doing a line tranny for my dac, the cable i made myself is a bit of a mess.
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