[linuxworks]

there are 2 offerings: one with trafo and one without. without is about $30 cheaper and I didn't trust their trafo quality (fires...) so I sourced my own pair of trafos instead.

 

[crapback]

Could anyone point me to that schematic or possibly any kind of instructions? Mine just came with a blank CD. My computer recognizes the dac as a USB audio codec but i get no sound. I hope I'm just doing something wrong and didn't get a dud. I seem to have the patience of a schizo lately so it's probably something I'm doing. I really want to get this thing up and running and try to upgrade it like Majkel posted in another thread.

 

[MrSlim]

check out this thread for tweaking info: diyAudio Forums - Experience with this DIY DAC ? - Page 1. Someone has probably posted a schematic.
Also, this thread: CS4397 dac - The Art of Sound Forum talks about the baby brother of the "biig Dac", where they split off the power supply from the board, and there is a schematic on that thread.

 

[DKJones96]

My bantam did this last night when I first hooked it up. Windows saw it, said there was sound to it and everything but I got nothing out of my headphones. I thought I messed something up so took it off and went back to the soldering table, everything checked out fine and the second time I hooked it up it then identified the dac chip by name but not until the 3rd connection did it start to actually make sound.

 

[crapback]

Thanks MrSlim. I just did not have the patience to sort thru google search results. I'm so tired of google trying to sell me everything I search for. I swear I can look for people's names and I'll get links to sites that will try to sell me something that doesn't exist, but miraculously has the same name...

DKJones96, I hooked mine up to my laptop at least 5 times with the same results each time. I'll have to play with it some more on my next day off next week.