DDC - Digital USB interfaces - Xmos or Amanero Combo384 based - Raspberry Pi - HifiBerry DAC+ Pro - reviews, comparison, modifications and USB-Audio in general

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The plot thickens
And 'jan's stuff' looks larger than expected. IIUC, the first board in your pics has the i2s chips and second one the clocks .. but what exactly does the third one?

 

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The plot thickens

And 'jan's stuff' looks larger than expected. IIUC, the first board in your pics has the i2s chips and second one the clocks .. but what exactly does the third one?

 
The third one is the isolator board which has to be connected between FIFO II board and Dual XO II clock board. Pcb's seems of very high quality 

 

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Hm guess you'll need a taller case to fit the entire rpi+ian stack into your monster dac.
And it may not fit into mine.

Anyway, wish you luck with the experiment and can hardly wait for the next sq impressions.

 

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Friend of mine is an audio diyer, he build this Raspberry PI3 recently, and pairs it with a diy R2R DAC. The acoustic playback is astonishing, it outperforms my brother's Naim flagship system entirely. I shall upload more images later on.
 
I upload all these images via my mobile phone, so it was a bit clumsy. . 

 

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  Friend of mine is an audio diyer, he build this Raspberry PI3 recently, and pairs it with a diy R2R DAC. The acoustic playback is astonishing, it outperforms my brother's Naim flagship system entirely. I shall upload more images later on.
 
I upload all these images via my mobile phone, so it was a bit clumsy. . 

 
Cool stuff. Sounds like the future to me
Also, I'm trying to figure out if such an rpi stack would fit into my current Minimax Plus Dac.  Do you know approx how tall is that case? And/or how tall is that rpi stack assembly inside it?

 

[abartels]

Hm guess you'll need a taller case to fit the entire rpi+ian stack into your monster dac.
And it may not fit into mine.

Anyway, wish you luck with the experiment and can hardly wait for the next sq impressions.

 
Yes, I will need a case which has a greater height, 9CM instead of 7CM, then I can put different R-Core in the enclosure, mount them on their side,
this will give me room enough to place all the pcb's.
 
I suppose rpi+DAC+ alone will be very very good, without fifo-isolator-dualdacboard, so that is maybe the way you should go.
The pcb's are not that big, but they won't fit in your dac 

 

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  Friend of mine is an audio diyer, he build this Raspberry PI3 recently, and pairs it with a diy R2R DAC. The acoustic playback is astonishing, it outperforms my brother's Naim flagship system entirely. I shall upload more images later on.
 
I upload all these images via my mobile phone, so it was a bit clumsy. . 

 
That looks great! (except for the scews in the sidepanel, hahahaha).
 
What kind of R2R dac is he using?
 
 
Regards,
 
Alex

 

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  it outperforms my brother's Naim flagship system entirely. 

 
Does your brother have the Naim Audio NDS? It's about $13.000 

 

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That looks great! (except for the scews in the sidepanel, hahahaha).
 
What kind of R2R dac is he using?
 
 
Regards,
 
Alex

 
 
I've been told it was R2R Sorkris.
May be the guy who built this Raspberry PI3 did not aware Breeze Audio offers solid built audio enclosure.

 

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Yes, I will need a case which has a greater height, 9CM instead of 7CM, then I can put different R-Core in the enclosure, mount them on their side,
this will give me room enough to place all the pcb's.

I suppose rpi+DAC+ alone will be very very good, without fifo-isolator-dualdacboard, so that is maybe the way you should go.
The pcb's are not that big, but they won't fit in your dac 

Yap, was afraid of that. Not that much space inside my minimax. Your current rpi+berrydac stack might fit though.