Comments on Profile Post by Scott Kramer

You are a freaking mad scientist!

You plan on modding the Gen 2 card or make your own PCB? Are you going to use RJ-45 for the I2S?

Yes, this time I may spin a little daughterboard... I want to go mini hdmi and the psaudio spec.

@Cspirou ...just modding the G2 board, with a tiny pcb, not a full dac! (if thats what you meant)

Isn't rj45 audio god only?

I thought MSB used RJ-45 and Twisted Pear Audio has a module

http://twistedpearaudio.com/digital/teleporter.aspx

what is the way to go? psaudio/wyred4sound hdmi, or rj45?

Probably HDMI. I think the RJ-45 is for longer distances

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.