What are you using for a processor? Are you buying a board or designing your own? No offense, but from reading your other posts, I don't think you have the skill/experience level for this. It's a very large project.

I'm going to need about 6. I bought a bunch of boards and front panels and the rest of the amb store parts for a group of friends and then the project got back burnered. I'm planning to order the mouser/digikey stuff in the next week or two.

Quote: Originally Posted by amb That's still down the road, but isn't what the γ2 is. That's all I wanted to hear. I'm sure what you learn from the γ2 will make the eventual no holds barred DAC even better. I won't have the time/money for it for a while anyway, which is the only...

Quote: Originally Posted by digger945 An evolutionary step towards the full featured desktop dac? Quote: Originally Posted by amb glt, thanks for your comments. There is no room on the γ2 board for a microcontroller, nor is there the power budget for it (the whole...

Ordered.

Awesome gift, but I still think my friend Val holds the best head-fi diy girlfriend ever title: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f11/be...d-ever-213512/

I suppose my opinion is based too heavily on my own prejudices. I find casework far more difficult and frustrating than soldering, so the fact that everything in the gamma1 is PCB mounted and that the custom panels are available makes it an easier build for me. Also, I feel like the Alien...

AMB's gamma1 is IMHO the best first DAC project. It sounds much better than the Alien. I built one of the prototypes, and AMB just released the PCBs today. Unfortunately you just missed the group buy on case panels.

Quote: Originally Posted by amb It remains to be seen, but I may only do panels for one of these configurations only. My vote would go to the USB+DAC 'full' configuration. Perhaps you can do a group buy on that, and then fab to order for the other configs. Another possibility for...

You also may want to consider the Sigma11 power supply for your PPA. I don't know if anyone has done any STEPS/Sigma11 comparisons yet. I'm going to build a Sigma11 for my M^3 eventually, but that's a ways off.

One of my friends in high school was flirting with breaking the minute mark. He once got told to move along by a Swiss policeman. He was solving the cube in a busy train station, and drawing a crowd that was starting to block things up.

Haj, any luck on you Beta22 arriving?

Quoth wikipedia: The first Compact Disc for commercial release rolled off the assembly line on August 17, 1982, at a Philips factory in Langenhagen, near Hanover, Germany. The first title released was ABBA's The Visitors (1981).

Quote: Originally Posted by jaredy But on a slightly different note on the topic...if you were listening to live music, which most certainly is fairly loud (and depending on the genre damaging for sure), do you guys wear ear protection? It might not be weeks worth of earphone hammering...

I'll be there. Phones: HF-1, HD600, K601 Amps: Pimeta, Millet Hybrid, M3, Total Bithead Sources: rio karma, HR MicroDac, Total Bithead I may have a Mini^3, depending on how quickly I get the parts orders in and if I get time to build it.

I think the westone UM2 is similar to Grado in some ways. Like others have said, it depends on what you like about Grado headphones. If you like the brightness and treble detail, it's something else, probably the er4. If you like the musicality and rock-out ness of the Grado, the UM2 is the one...

Resistance and impedance are not the same thing, even though they're measured in the same units. Resistance is the opposition to DC current flow. Impedance is the opposition to AC current flow. Characteristic impedance of a transmission line is related to the DC resistance, the inductance, the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tyll Hertsens Sorry I wasn't clear: What I meant was that the switches did different things dependant on the operating mode the box was in. A "soft button" is a programmable button. As for the mechanics of the switch itself, the button is just a bit of...

What is the output on the new micro DAC? I assume still a stereo mini jack.

I'm still intrigued by the Ultra Micro DAC, but at that price point it's going to need some serious features. I don't think I can justify $1k on a DAC that doesn't have balanced outputs, for example.

Yeah, I can't wait for more information about this. I have a micro DAC and love it. I've never used it on batteries, so I'd love an AC only version with better sound quality. I'd really love a HR Balanced DAC, but I doubt that can fit in the micro case.

I have a Hornet that I'm thinking about selling. I'm down in your neck of the woods from time to time on my way to and from your office. If you want to try it out, let me know. Do you have a line out for your nano? I think getting a line out and an amp is the place to start before the imod.

These are STEPS 1.2 boards. The board itself fits fine. It's the transformer that hits the top rails of the case.

kdaq and I ordered parts together. I have the same issue. The toroid is part number TE70062.

Quote: Originally Posted by tangent T Yeah, mostly on purpose. gschem is based on Gtk+, and Gtk+ doesn't behave very well under Windows. I use the gaim messaging client (which uses Gtk+) on windows all the time, and it works pretty well. There are occasional graphical glitches...