[PitBul34]

How to make IIS (I2S) cable to connect Soundaware D100 digital transport to LKS 003, 004 DAC:

You need:

- 2x RJ-45 connectors
- 25-30 sm of twisted pair
- Crimp tool

General scheme:

What to do scheme:

Soundaware connector (IIS-output):

Pin 1 - empty
Pin 2 - orange
Pin 3 - white-orange
Pin 4 - blue
Pin 5 - white-blue
Pin 6 - green
Pin 7 - white-green
Pin 8 - brown

LKS connector (IIS-E input):

Pin 1 - white-orange
Pin 2 - orange
Pin 3 - white-green
Pin 4 - blue
Pin 5 - white-blue
Pin 6 - green
Pin 7 - white-brown (just cut it)
Pin 8 - brown

Have fun!

 

[Robert McAdam]

Has anyone done a direct comparison with the Holo Spring or the Benchmark Dac3 using this LKS004 Dac?

 

[colour97]

i am pre holo spring owner （changed silver transformer and audionote transformer at aes）

just got my 004.
i am using singxer f-1 for usb instead of factory usb.

 

[hicr49]

i am pre holo spring owner （changed silver transformer and audionote transformer at aes）

just got my 004.
i am using singxer f-1 for usb instead of factory usb.

Did you order your 004 with upgraded USB or regular USB? Do you find the f-1 still better than its onboard USB?

 

[colour97]

mine is regular usb version. ab comparsion, f1 is much better than onboard usb.
f1 background is much clearer. onboard usb is noisy.

 

[PitBul34]

LKS 004, upgraded Amanero ver. USB module test:

LKS Audio MH-DA004 dual ES9038 DAC - USB -male vocal- test #6


LKS Audio MH-DA004 dual ES9038 DAC - USB -jazz variants- test #7


LKS Audio MH-DA004 dual ES9038 DAC - USB -female vocal- test #8



LKS Audio MH-DA004 dual ES9038 DAC - USB -Oriental variants- test #9

 

[PitBul34]

Chris Cornell R.I.P. (((((((((



He was my favorite rocker....... So sad!!!

 

[Lennym]

I enjoy reading your initial impressions on this DAC.

Since I'm currently using an Oppo 105, have a lot of disks and want to upgrade, I'd simply like to ask if anyone with the DAC uses it to play physical media. Is it fine through the coax SPDIF? Or do you use other ins and outs?

Thanks.

 

[PitBul34]

I'd simply like to ask if anyone with the DAC uses it to play physical media. Is it fine through the coax SPDIF?

Yes, i do it via coax. I have a lot of CD-DA and TEAC VRDS 10 as a digital CD-transport. CD-DA sounds fine via LKS 004 SPDIF, imo.

LKS Audio MH-DA004 dual ES9038 DAC -CD-DA playback- test #10


LKS Audio MH-DA004 dual ES9038 DAC -CD-DA playback- test #11

 

[mb3]

I enjoy reading your initial impressions on this DAC.

Since I'm currently using an Oppo 105, have a lot of disks and want to upgrade, I'd simply like to ask if anyone with the DAC uses it to play physical media. Is it fine through the coax SPDIF? Or do you use other ins and outs?

Thanks.

From my exerience there are no probs with any input. The key question would be what sounds better - lks 004 with amanero usb upgrade or standard fed by i2s from a ddc like singxer su1.

 

[Lennym]

Thanks for your comments and help. In his head-fi review of the Singxer, project86 writes: "The little D200 has a nice Amanero USB board running off internal linear power, and it works well enough to where the Singxer can't do a whole lot better - it's already bumping up against the limits of the DAC." That suggest to me that the Amanero usb upgrade is probably the way to go, unless the performance of the Yulong is so far below the level of the LKS that the comparison is irrelevant. But then IIUC the Amanero upgrade is a higher spec board than what might be in the D200.

 

[mb3]

Not too sure - some report that i2s is innately better. I haven't got a singxer. I'm mostly using USB from pc to wyrd with good results. But also have no probs with optical and coax.

From my experience the file type is more important - the higher the file sampling frequency, the greater the rate of hearing static / white noise, with most dsd256 files being unplayable except at dpll > 8.

I found that pcm files played back at dpll set to 1, sounded better than native dsd files with high dpll.

 

[canthearyou]

I can't find 004 at shenzhen.com.

 

[phthora]

I can't find 004 at shenzhen.com.

Yo...

https://www.shenzhenaudio.com/l-k-s...bu-for-dop-usb-i2s-optical-audio-decoder.html

 

[canthearyou]

Cool. Thanks!