Scrap DAC (PCM1710U & Cs8412/14)

Happy new year everyone!

All the best! 🙂

As i didn't have any luck with my previous project (Vestax cdx 12) i decided to up-cycle the DAC of the Vestax.

Not that bad, not that good but i'll give a try.

BB PCM1710 used in several PC players and also in AN cd1.

As i'm gathering information about schematics im nearly at the end of the pcb.

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It will be quite simple according to the two schematics describing all the necessary connections between CS8412/14 + PCM1710.

The only thing i will need some help is Pin 16 of Cs8412/14.

I'm thinking it will be great to have a sampling frequency indicator & error indicator (both in leds)

I've found a nice Cs8412 spdif indicator

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In this case SEL (pin 16) is LOW so we can have error/frequency info selected according to datasheet.

I was wondering if with SEL in LOW we can enable de-emphasis also.. Seems not but a person with greater skills may know better.

Also how can we add the 96Khz sampling freq. in case we use the pin compatible 8414?

And the pcb so far..

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Thank you all 🙂
 

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Hi,

Quick question about Delta sigma pcm1716 (similar with pcm1710).

In Thule spirit 150 they use 2 dacs (one for each channel I guess) although the Dac ic has L & R outputs.

What is the propose of this kind of implementation against single ic usage?

Thank you very much!
 

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PCM1710 was in the first DAC I built that I found to be truly disappointing. After all the TDA splendour and PCM58, PCM63 etc. pretty much always being succesful projects the PCM1710 turned out to be jitter sensitive and noisy. I think this was most worse with YM3623B (the worst SPDIF receiver in history) with a kind of noise over music experience. I would consider using a known good low jitter SPDIF receiver like WM8804, a known good more recent DAC chip just as known good ultra low noise regulators.

ES9023 is already way better. If you want a simple setup that is.
 
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