When I was planning the wiring scheme for the Baby Desktop O2, originally, I thought I would use 3 and 4 pin board mounted posts with equivalent pin connectors so all the flying wires could be disconnected from the board. I realized that would be too much work(and probably even more prone to disconnection so I only made one of the connections removable (the 3 pin P1 jack for the RCA inputs, beside the input J2 connector).
(note to add part #s for the pins and connectors I used)

Make sure you grind off the anodized coating around the holes on the inside of the panel before you mount the RCAs to get a good ground connection.

I used individual pairs of wire from solid core Cat5 cable for all the connections, and in my wiring description, I'll be using the wire colours from the cable I used. (it helped since I built 16 of them.. )

For P1 (for RCA input) I used Brown/white for Right and Blue/white for Left. The square pad(close to the the...

I got to the point with my new audio DSP / crossover that I had no more excuse not to load the remaining PCB's I had manufactured.

I initially only loaded one of them, on the basis that if I had a clanger in the layout I could get a new spin of the boards.

Well the thing is all working and I have updated the DAC board - so the remaining five boards needed loading. I find a bit of PCB manufacture and loading to be quite therapuetic - as my previous blog entries will show.

This weekend I found my limit - loading the SMD's for these five boards - by hand in my toaster oven - took about three hours, then loading all the through hole parts, particularly headers and power supply parts blew away I would guess six more hours. I am over it!!!!

They do look pretty though!



The only part remainig to be loaded on these boards is the ADAU1442 regulstor transistor. Thay will allow me to...

The project will proceed, exactly as stated in the earlier posts. Just a shame people couldn't help injecting unhelpful comments, and I was provoked into responding. Ahhh, well ...

So, now some peace and quiet! Hopefully at least a few will find something of benefit in what I relate here, and my methods may resonate with some.

Anyway, may all enjoy good listening, no matter what!

Cheers,
Frank

Postscript: Hah! Dumb me, I didn't spot this earlier: [url]https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/blogs/janneman/297-dont-such-scientist.html[/url]. Some excellent thoughts and comments ...

One thing that always used to give me grief at home was loading fine pitch surface mount IC's.

I recently bought a toaster oven having read several people's experience using these to relow SMD's.

I lashed out and bought the el-expensivo fan forced model, as this was in one forum reported to give more even heat. After some playing around I concluded the oven would actually be really very good.

I found that if I did the following (with my oven):
- Turn on and run on 2 bars until temperature = 100C,
- Turn down to one bar, and run for 60 seconds,
- Turn on two bars and continue until the temperature is 210C,
- Turn all bars off, leave fan on and open the door a crack.

The heat continues to increase to about 220, and the profile is really very close to many manufacturers recommended profiles.



I don't use silksceeens, I use a syringe and put a very little...

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Does anyone have the schematic of the power amp section of the subject AM/FM receiver? Please share it. Thank you

Here's one of the clearest articles I've seen which explains the background and a couple of solutions to DAC roll-off.

Flatten DAC frequency response | EDN

Both the solutions proposed compromise the dynamic range. My own solution, a hybrid analog/digital approach relies on DACs being cheap - I've termed it 'LAID' which stands for 'Longitudinal Array of Inexpensive DACs'.

The B2 file is for the BOX Enclosures B2-080 case, that is used in the standard "transportable" O2

The B3 files are for front and rear panels on a BOX Enclosures B3-080 case, used in the "Baby" desktop configuration of the O2. This configuration includes mounting holes for a 1/4" headphone jack and volume control on the front, with all the rest of the jacks and buttons on the back, along with a pair of RCA jacks for input. The PC board in Baby Desktop is installed backwards.

Just finished set to work of the new DAC for the digitial crossover. This includes a PGA2320 programmable attenuator on the output of the CS4398 DAC.

This replaces the home made PCB thai I was using on the CS4398 output. I went the professionally made board mainly because PCBCART was able to deliver 16 of these to my house for $140, that includes tooling!!! The actual boards were like $3 or 4 each!

The quality of these baords is fine - though I must admit that I am not breaking any new ground in PCB technology here.

The board is only double sided - I thought about adding a seperate ground and power plance - but the routing density is so lot it would be crazy. The whole back side only has a handful of tracks on it - and is a ground plane in itself. The top side even has room for significant ground fill.

All the digital stuff is in between the connector and the DAC, with a few SPI lines up the left hand...

The prototype is listenable now, but a bit too much background noise/hum pickup to do serious listening. It needs an on-board post filter and amp, which I'm working on now. In the meantime, here's the pics - the DAC itself is built of 5 'dac-sleds' each with a stack of 4 chips. The 'sleds' are then arranged around the central tower holding the resistor ladder. A separate board handles the timing logic and 18 tap delay line.

I cased up my odac board (NwAvGuy via jtktam) in a small aluminum project box.

The DAC is a simple two-chip affair, with a Tenor TE7022L controller fronting the ESS ES9023 DAC and integrated line driver. A couple of voltage regulators, the clock oscillator, and an eeprom chip round out the principle component list.

I compared it with my Onkyo SE-200PCI sound card. This 24/192 (115dB S/N A-weighted, 0.003% THD 0dB 1kHz) PCI card sells for about $15,000 yen and is based on the VIA Envy24HT and Wolfson WM8740.

I'm listening to 16bit 44.1kHz .wav (CD rips), though VLC [sample rate converter set to sinc, best quality, resampling quality 8]. Windows 8 release preview [default format 24/192 (onkyo), 24/96 (odac)]. Line out though Oyaide PA-02TR interconnects to the Sapphire headphone amp, and Sennheiser HD-600s.

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So, I was planning on writing up a big 'ol review with my impressions, but, well... there's not really a...