HDD players with built in PCM1794 DAC

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audioholik

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just found this site,

http://hifidiy.net/zxbd/200808/t20080802_1673.htm

now they are selling this kit for about $200 including mainboard, case, and R Core transformer. and you can add $40 more for 1798/4 DAC kit

just want to know what do you guys think about it?
and, is it better than PC based + USB DAC player? :smash:

i think i might be ordering those :cool:


oh and use google translate to read all the painting :D
 
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MrMajestic

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audioholik said:
just found this site,

http://hifidiy.net/zxbd/200808/t20080802_1673.htm

now they are selling this kit for about $200 including mainboard, case, and R Core transformer. and you can add $40 more for 1798/4 DAC kit

just want to know what do you guys think about it?
and, is it better than PC based + USB DAC player? :smash:

i think i might be ordering those :cool:


oh and use google translate to read all the painting :D
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For $200 it looks like a bargain.
 
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finneybear

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Ok, since I know the host of the site so probably I can relay you guys request to him?

Anyway, I'd say it's a fairly matured product as of now. It can handle APE, Flac, 24bit/192KHz wave files as well as spit out 24bit/192KHz SPDIF data stream.

You do have to provide your own hard drive though.

Another Chinese website is also bringing out a similar product. This one is based on the ADI Blackfin processor running at 600MHz. It hence has the extra horsepower to do upsampling in software! A bit more higher end yet the release date is still unknown. The price is about the same. Both machines can do firmware/software upgrade through internet:

http://cndiyclub.com/bbs/read.php?tid=16201

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
 
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awpagan

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analog_sa said:
It's a pity it seems to work with IDE drives. These days i only use 1TB SATAs and have no idea if large IDE drives are still in manufacture. Any chance for SATA support?
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It does look interesting!

analog_sa
how about using an IDE to SATA adapter?


But then
It may be more an issue of HDD size, and what the firmware can access?
 
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finneybear

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analog_sa said:
It's a pity it seems to work with IDE drives. These days i only use 1TB SATAs and have no idea if large IDE drives are still in manufacture. Any chance for SATA support?
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Default is 2.5" IDE. You can easily convert it to 3.5" SATA driver with a small $5 conversion card or you can wait for their expansion card which will be released later this year.

The player by cndiyclub.com has default support for SATA.
 
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