JohnSwenson wrote: > From the hardware side the design for CSP1 is done. We are currently > waiting for some custom oscillators to be manufactured. JackOfAll is > working on the driver for the DAC chip using the SWAMP board. I don't > want to finalize the board design until we know we have drivers that > work, I don't want to find out that "oops, this pin needs to be > inverted" after the board files have been sent out. Between garden > variety wandboards and the SWAMP board I think we can get the software > working for everything we need. > > Those oscillators are probably going to be the gating item on getting > CSP1 hardware built. > > The test boards I've done for DAC chips, regulators etc are working > extremely well. The concept I'm working with is bypassing the internal > digital filter in the DAC chip by doing the upsampling in software on > the processor, this is turning out to sound extremely good. My original > goal for this project was to get very good sound out of this, way better > than it's price would suggest, but the results I'm getting right now > indicate this is significantly better than that, it's getting close to > the best there is. It's that good. > > Unfortunately in order to get that lofty performance might take a really > good power supply, better than the basic switcher being talked about in > this thread. After we get the real hardware built and people using it > we will have to do some experiments with power supplies and find out > what the real sesitivities are. I'm doing quite a bit to try and cut > down on PS sensitivity, but experiments still show that the really good > supplies sound better. > > The software guys continue to improve the software side, Triode and > JackOfAll have done a phenominal job getting this all working, it's > further along now than any other project I've ever worked on has been > at this stage. > > My personal goal is to have CSP1s built and ready to send to the beta > testers before the end of the year. I know everybody wants them > tomorrow, but that is not going to happen. > > Well I guess that is about it for now. > > John S.
John, How would you compare sound quality of CSP1 to DDDAC 1794. Im currently working on one planning to use communitysqueeze player as a source. Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bobtob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=60997 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
