While I understand the desire for several of the firmware features most of those 'features' are easily implemented if a uC is used to control the 1021.
One issue, though, is the auto-select of active input - the 1021 boots so quickly that it outputs audio before a uC 'gets control'. Meaning that, if you have different sources connected and one of those is active on booting up the 1021, then that source is briefly output before the uC sets the desired input. A minor inconvenience and I suppose you could add more circuitry to mute the output until the uC gets up to speed but my wish list would be a firmware option to set the input (like you can the volume) on boot-up; thereby disabling the auto-select of any active source and that 'unprofessional' quick burst of audio.
Don't think I have (this is my 6th or 7th 1021 build) but not sure of past history. Building it for a friend.
There's no 3V3 wiring as such - just power connected. I'll get back to it in a few hours remove the 1117 and check for a short between output and ground. If it is shorted I guess that's bad news??
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Seems as if more vendors are using the DAM. Earlier it was the lessloss dac.
This time the LampizatOr Atlantic dac (Starting at 4000 euros)
DAC ATLANTIC
Can clearly see the 1021 module to the left there.
This time the LampizatOr Atlantic dac (Starting at 4000 euros)
DAC ATLANTIC
Can clearly see the 1021 module to the left there.
Seems as if more vendors are using the DAM. Earlier it was the lessloss dac.
This time the LampizatOr Atlantic dac (Starting at 4000 euros)
DAC ATLANTIC
Can clearly see the 1021 module to the left there.
I had my suspicions it was a 1021 in there
Where did you find the picture?
The extemely subjective and biased 6moons
Haha
The review hardly would come as part of an advertising package deal?
Don't think I ever read a bad review there......
The extemely subjective and biased 6moons
Saw it too, funny how they was extremely biased towards DSD. Even more funny as they seems to totally misunderstand how DSD was processed in the Atlantic, afaik, in the unit they had for testing it was the dam1021 that did the whole DSD processing.... There are a couple of better reviews of the Atlantic, just google it.
in the pics looks like dam1021 dac only?
only i2s and gnd connected on amanero
hard to understand how the 1021 could do dsd better than pcm?
maybe down to the source tracks, ive heard dsd better pcm tracks and visa versa
My first build was with 2 boards, but after a week i switched back to a single board. In balanced mode im getting nervous and the musicflow was not like the single board. The bass was to much and not precise.
I think the problem is the 2 Clocks that are not in sync and generating jitter.
The dac have pins for master-slave mode, but it didn´t work...
Single ended is hard to beat in any application unless you really need balanced.
I have never understood the balanced mania for "music in the home". But then I am a minimalist when it comes to audio components. The less there is the less to go wrong and I have rarely heard a complicated component design that sounded better than a simple one and even then it is usually just one part of the spectrum it gets really right and the rest suffers. The simple design will have more distortion but the distortion is spread evenly across the bandwidth and is easier for the ear/brain to correct.
I have never understood the balanced mania for "music in the home". But then I am a minimalist when it comes to audio components. The less there is the less to go wrong and I have rarely heard a complicated component design that sounded better than a simple one and even then it is usually just one part of the spectrum it gets really right and the rest suffers. The simple design will have more distortion but the distortion is spread evenly across the bandwidth and is easier for the ear/brain to correct.
Hi, thanks a lot koala and Rick. I was originally thinking about more gain @ the same output impedence. But after re-calculation, I found that the voltage swing should be enough for my amplification stages. Thus the question since I was not sure if there would be any other advantages. Thanks again.
