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I'm not one of those people that always try to improve on every piece of equipment that they buy or build. TO me it feels like modding a beetle to become a Ferrari and we all know that proably doesn't work that way. However, in this case I suspect the kit to contain some inferior components and apart from the board itself we could do something about the components close to the board.
There are a few things on my wishlist for this DAC
Of course the power supply and the cabinet then need to be rock solid.
As discussed on the first page, the DAC board has 4 jumpers. 2 of them can be used to set the input to USB, Optical or Coax, the other 2 can be used to set the sampling freq. By not using the jumpers and instead connecting a rotary switch through a set of cables the Dac becomes much more usable. Since the switch won't be directly switching the inputs but instead connects to special selecting pins on the DAC chip itself that will do the switching for us, we probably do not have to worry about cracks and noise on the input while switching.
Anyway, the proof is in the eating (or so) and therefore I plan to build this setup in the next weeks.
Well, it took me much longer to work on the input select etc. And that's mainly because the format of the printed circuit board for thsi DAC is by no means standard. It measures more than 8 cm on each side which makes it difficult to find a cheap box/chassis/cabinet.
2L：www.2l.no
B&W：http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/display.aspx?infid=777
Chesky：www.chesky.com
DG：www2.deutschegrammophon.com/
HDtracks：www.hdtracks.com
HifiTrack：www.hifitrack.com
Linn Record：www.linnrecords.com
MusicGiants：www.musicgiants.com
Naim：www.naimlabel.com
Reference Recordings：www.referencerecordings.com
Unipheye Music：www.unipheyemusic.com
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