Scott Kramer

I might be selling a GFA-555 v1 soon in perfectly functional shape if you're interested, used it with maggie 3.6R's to great success.

I think Torq was part of that old guard. Not all bad

i think you know who tho ;D

fixed

Yeah the Clear and Lyr3 combo.... i thought was pretty fantastic!

Yeah, really enjoying it.

Yeah, that would be trivial, if I had a spec for i2s.

Well if Scott is correct, that it is using parallel "loading", most dac chips take in serial data...so im not sure many, if any, of the off the shelf chips for that purpose would work.

@SoupRKnowva - you are correct. Df1704 splits into left and right, but it's serial data.

@Donald North has killed the wireless speaker game with his Riva WAND series IMHO.

7 tweeters suggests they they fundamentally do not get single point source sound, and that's just the start -- $79 bucks at most WITH the apple tax, and I LIKE apple

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/what-a-long-strange-trip-its-been-robert-hunter.784471/page-540#post-14260921

camera upgrades as well, wow

My theory is, simplify manufacturing, re-use the adante tweeter, make it work in a non-concentric design. Fail if you ask me.

I am a fan of AJ’s work too. Steve G has a video interview with him about the Debut 2.0 series, and I got the sense that almost all of the modifications were about aesthetics and alleviating customer nervosa about the rear port. So not really aimed at audiophiles anymore. Bummer!

Here it is if you’re interested: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qZvhG7yUJGc

It's my current 2014 mac, was researching new ones... normal people would say-- but-- USB ;D lol, and they're probably right

Yes, the feature reduction continues apace. I'm somewhat surprised that the new iPads still have headphone jacks.

Remember: It's not "feature reduction", it's "courage".

I figured you would want to roll your own since you want to enable DSD.

If modding the gen 2 board does this mean you are going to remove the USB port and controller?

No... there's a 4 resistor array connecting the 4 i2s lines from the output of the USB chip to the ak4490's, just pull that and tap directly in. Not that destructive at all... can jumper the USB back in. There's some logic detecting USB, but already figured that out with the Moby. Cakewalk. DSD uses the same i2s, it's just a matter of setting a pin high/low on the AK4490's.

Hell, has anyone tried DSD into the lyr3 via USB? @schiit is probably disabling it on purpose thru the USB firmware.

Power over ethernet!

@Cspirou with a HAT. Sorta uhhh IMO, considering you can get PoE HATs for the previous PIs, just a lot less elegantly.

Super excited. Fingers crossed for launch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c for the live stream

schiit/psaudio are my 2 fav's -- I'm a 2 (3 with the interesting pi dacs) dac guy, have a modded psaudio DL3 with my own rasppi master clock in, and the yggy... nice swing in differences. Would love a directstream, I'll save up for DS2 (when it comes out in 5 years)

blabbing about Adante's wow: http://www.psaudio.com/forum/latest-ideas-forum/trio-c100-with-icepower-300asc-300w-modules/#p85748

Nice gear you have.

Electrically they are an an exact match... result was more clarity from resistors, slam from the inductors,
"plankton" no doubt from the caps

I built a 5.0 HT system this way when I was skint, three of these https://goo.gl/images/JbbSKV

Secret is to go all the way to min vol at the start, plus good line of sight

Cool, sure everything (receivers, pi oscm/xbmc, roku, others) just down mixes to 2channel... but usually from the plain dts/ac3 stream, and no LFE -- i'm doing it manually in software & creating a new file :D

interesting re: oppo

Yeah I've been happy with it. If one wanted to, they could use an Audiopraise board and S/PDIF out to four outboard DACs to have 7.1. http://audiopraise.com/vanityhd/overview.php