Hi
I simply love the sound from my Cambridge CD3, and wondered if it was possible to somehow connect the digital output from my computer to the internal dac (4 x tda1541)
I do not have the schematic, but after reading a lot on the net about this player, it seems to be a relativly simple design.
Any chance that it could be done simply by finding the correct number and placement of the legs, and then solder an input cable?
any thoughts and maybe diagrams will be highly appreiciated.
Steen
I simply love the sound from my Cambridge CD3, and wondered if it was possible to somehow connect the digital output from my computer to the internal dac (4 x tda1541)
I do not have the schematic, but after reading a lot on the net about this player, it seems to be a relativly simple design.
Any chance that it could be done simply by finding the correct number and placement of the legs, and then solder an input cable?
any thoughts and maybe diagrams will be highly appreiciated.
Steen
Probably not, tho it's a cool idea.
The Cambridge dac is most likely fed with an IIS (I2S) bus. It's more than 1 wire.
You could buy a USB to I2S adapter from someone like miniDSP and patch it in.
But the problem of switching still remains.
I²S - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dyolf, did you ever do anything with this?
The Cambridge dac is most likely fed with an IIS (I2S) bus. It's more than 1 wire.
You could buy a USB to I2S adapter from someone like miniDSP and patch it in.
But the problem of switching still remains.
I²S - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dyolf, did you ever do anything with this?
But the problem of switching still remains.
Nothing that a relay or two cannot solve. More elegant solutions are no doubt available but this worked for me for a couple of years and i could hear no degradation.
Why would i even suspect a "degradation in numbers"? The very worst i can expect is a slight rounding of the slopes due to the added capacitance. As the I2S is fed into an ASRC in this particular DAC, it seems to make no difference. A relay is just not all that different from a longer PCB track.
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