Jotunheim 1 with phono card. One small ding on the top (see in pictures). come with the original manual and packaging. No power cord. This is an early version, but after years of using, I couldn't hear the brightness lately, YMMV. Price: $180 including PP and ground shipment to 48 continental...

just ordered a Mani 2. will report back

If you like the opensource LMS (Logitech Media Service) ecosystem, piCorePlayer and DietPi are good choices. Hardware wise, it runs on a raspberry PI ($35). combined with a good pi HAT, they sounds stunning for less than $200.

I am in. Any weekends in Nov would be great.

One of the best audio meets I've had in the New England area. Many thanks @gc335. Got a chance to hear the soekris 1541 DAC, very impressive. Regarding to the headphones, I am generally a speaker guy. I felt that the Audeze phones provide a sense of ambience that is very close to what I hear...

@rlow LOL. I understand. But the current productions of Saga and Freya both have had a short latency when switch inputs. I am fine with 5-second-holding idea, but double-click won't be terrible. The program would set a duration - any duration of 2-clicks longer than the threshold, say 0.5...

@Jason Stoddard. I truly like the idea of remembering the volume set of each channel - it will work as a HT-bypass for me. But the real killer function to add is the backward switching of inputs. Other than holding 40 seconds (or 4 seconds), I was thinking, how about double click for backward...

Hi rb2013,   I don't have those yet, and I use cheap USB cables - straightwire USB or Belkin Gold (now very cheap on amazon).   My thought was: "OK, the usb is bad, the computer is noisy. I would then use a 5 watt single board linux computer, feeding with a clean LPS, then I've cut the dirty...

    Thanks for the nice word.  sbgk, those "even my wife liked it" thing did work on forums, didn't it? LOL .   I contacted the designer. He said that de-soldering the DC-DC converter is doable. He used the DC-DC converter because he wanted the board to be simply plug-and-play and lower...

My first impression for the F-1 XMOS USB interface : 5 stars.   I got my F-1 board yesterday. The build quality is better than what I expected, better than it on the pictures. The first thing made me very happy was that it worked with my little Linux-based single board music server. Then, I am...

      A quick follow up. Now I believe the Melodious MX-U8 (at least the latest version 1.7) units are just not compatible with regular build Linux - I tried two units. I bought another XMOS based DDC (the Singxer F-1 XMOS USB/SPDIF board), it works with my linux smoothly. After talking to...

Thanks rb2013. I value your rating for those converters, that is why I bought a F-1, ha ha.   I talked to the designer, Mr. Chen at singxer.com, today. He said that the firmware is written by himself/his team. He mentioned that the official (default) XMOS firmware had limited performances and...

Would anyone do me a big favor - test if the F-1 compatible with Linux system? say, any Linux on ARM-chip based single board computer or Daphile on intel based computer? Much appreciated.

I ordered a F-1 yesterday, and got the same message. The new batch is available in a week. I just cross my fingers wish it would compatible to my Linux systems.

Right. the ebay seller wsz0304 is the shenzhenaudio.com. He has an audio store in Shenzhen China, thus if you call, sometime it would be a lady speaking on the phone. I talked to him when I tried to figure out the compatibility issue for my Melodious MX-U8 with Linux. He is an accountable...