Quote: Originally Posted by balou Well, looks like the non-VC option is right for you, why not go for it? -comes in the frequency you need -you're able to change frequency by more than 100ppm Well by how much can I change it how accuratly and exactly how do I go about doing it?

Quote: Originally Posted by Pars He does offer a VCXO in addition to the regular XO modules. The XO modules probably do not vary with voltage (much). The VCXO is only variable by +/- 100ppm though. The VCXO is used in his XO DAC module, which retimes the incoming bitstream...

Quote: Originally Posted by balou You can change an XOs frequency by changing the supply voltage. I don't know if the Tent XO is a VCXO (voltage compensated) or not - if yes, you must change the voltage quite a bit to get a change of a few ppm, if not, you need quite a stable regulator...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pars http://www.tentlabs.com/InfoSupport/...34/page34.html PPM is a unit used to specify the clock's performance to the specified frequency, but has nothing to do with jitter. I think what you may be looking for is an ASRC? These don't seem to be viewed...

I have been designing an oversampling DAC for the past year, year and a half (in my rare spare time) and I have been thinking about input and DAC clock variances... I mean if the speed of the input clock is off even by 1% we are talking 441 error samples a second in a simple 44.1kHz...

I find SMD much easier to work with, especially when doing the PCBs myself as well as the soldering - 0603 with good twezers is no problem at all even though the tip of my soldering iron is bigger than the part Making PCBs with through hole - drilling and through hole plating - is a pain in...

I make my own boards using photolithography, takes about an hour - hour and a half for a double sided through hole plated PCB. And yes you can do those yourself, you can do mechanical through hole plating using though hole rivets like these http://www.megauk.com/through_hole_rivets.php -...

I give it to them straight - my friends and family already know i'm nuts, and newcomers will learn it sooner or later anyways - and I rather enjoy having a rep for being nuts, lets me do whatever I want without people bugging me about it

High res ok lets see there is: A UV exposure unit (UV202E) A PC powersupply A Soldering station - nothing wild but it has tempcontrol and stuff Asorted chemicals (NAOH, Fe3Cl, Flux, Strip, somthing for tinning) A bottle of water A couple of drills, one in stand An electric saw...

Its starting to look that way... I've been working 100 hour weeks for more than 5 years now trying to get a business going, this year will tell whether it succeeds - it is finaly starting to look up; we have signed with some major customers that we hope will open the doors to the rest of the...

well 12Mb is enough even for 192kHz 24bit - that only adds up to 9,216,000 bits per second but the problem might very esily turn out to be getting the mcu to put the data onto the I2S bus fast enough and not just that but at the precise speed required for the sampling rate in question

Quote: Originally Posted by Skubasteve Perhaps a dumb question: why hasn’t anyone taken advantage of the significant bandwidth increase afforded by USB 2.0 and introduced a 2.0 audio chip? The current selection of USB 2.0 devices is pretty sparse in any area - I can't find a...

Kidney stones are real evil - they come in a close third... second I had some really evil pain down my spine and down the front in the middle - left me hyperventilating in excruciating pain - they doctors got quite worried but they never found the cause - i'm still guessing it was a bad...

I had the same problem a while back - I contacted creative and after a bit of debugging they asked me to send the analogue card back and they sent me a new one. They were very nice about it and it was no problem.

well lets see there is the Monica http://www.diyparadise.com/ the DDDAC http://www.dddac.de both non-os using TDA154x chips built a dddac mk 2 myself and i like it but it isn't exactly cheap i'm sure there are som os dacs out there too but all the ones i have in my links collections...

I could be wrong I haven't seen every DIY DAC out there but I don't think you are likely to find one premade with TOSLINK, people seem to swear by coax for their S/PDIF connections. But I have seen simple coax to TOSLINK converters (do a google search) that could be a solution if you don't...

I look at it this way: I don't care wether I can tell the difference, encoding lossless ensures that I never have to worry about that part, and I can transcode it to other formats for portable use without further loss (and is see no reason for using 320 on portable equipment anyway - in a real...

It sucks - I supose I'm a bit spoiled comming from a city with a really good public transportation system. But seriously what kind of an idiot designs the bus routes so that litterally every bus goes to the intercity train station in the center of the city. When I went to university I...

well you could try contacting http://www.vpcinc.com/ listed on megauk.com distributer page and see if they will deal with you, and if they wont I should think you'd be able to convince megauk to deal directly with you, and it cannot possibly cost a fortune to send something so small and so light...

Ok did a little more research and seems the SR325i and MS2i is pretty much the same and given the price difference that rules out the SR325i, and with effectively an SR325i and SR225 at the same price, the bigger number means better devil makes me drop the SR225. putting the SA5000 and MS2i...

darn I was sorta hoping to come out of this thread with _fewer_ questions... I know, I know, very naive thinking on my part :-) I'm going to rule the K501 out simply because it is so cheap I can buy that one and still buy any of the others... The K701 seems to be too close to the HD650 -...

with regards to the MS2i, how easy are they to get your hands on in europe? SA5000, i can get from amzon and the price range is about the same guess i'll have to research them too.. the K501 - how is the K701 compared to it? Meier has the K701 but not the K501 and the price is within range

I currently have a pair of HD650 which I love, but I find myself wanting for a more in-your-face headphone, not to replace the HD650 but to complement it. I am considering a Grado 225 and 325i, but I haven't got my heart set on either yet... The 325i is obviously somewhat more expensive...

Quote: Originally Posted by uzziah i think you were the one who had problems with it? said it was resampling to 48khz? According to the specs is uses a 11.2896 MHz oscilator which pretty much means 44.1kHz, so I think it is pretty unlikely that is should be resampling to 48kHz

Quote: Originally Posted by audioengr Cost. It's what drives all CE. Might be an argument for $50 players - but my portable player in the 1990s had 10s worth of antishock memory and cost less than $150 - which to me spells that any half decent player today should be able to apply...