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ES9023 / WM8804 S/PDIF DAC Group Buy

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Same league = same category: cheap all-in-one dacs mainly intended for budget applications, not for hi-end.
Both chips have pros & cons. They do not sound exactly the same, according to Patrick (EUVL). I'm personaly biased toward Sabre technology anyway.
 
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IMO the 4 Euro ES9023 performs way better than it should. Maybe not high end but reasonably close 😉 After second thoughts: syklab reported it sounds better than his Oppo and W4S DAC2. That is not budget class.

The hard thing will be to choose a better chip than ES9023 if I want to do a new DAC project.
 
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DIYAudio Member GuidoR showed some time ago how to extract I2S signals from the HiFace. He posted many detailed pics too. You can do a quick search. I'm travelling right now and I have little time left on train's wi-fi.
I would also replace the original TI regs with some better ones, such as ADP150 or ADP151.
 
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