TDA1541A Dual differential MK1

Your statment about what I said just proves you have few expzriences with this chip... and I never say circuitry topology doesn't matter as well.

Again you are making things many people did already 10 to 30 years ago, so did I.
Please drop a picture of your board to have good advices from people that maid their homework already, ...we will be happy to help.
Merry Xmass þo all
 
SPECTRUM

I2S source is a modified Technics PS-770D and a audio test CD from Amazon.
Signal is taken directly from the Sowter transformer secondary. No I/V resistor on the primaries, 6k8r across the secondaries (series connected).
However I have yet to investigate a sharp notch at 70Hz. Maybe its related to the low frequency dem clocking. This will be easy to prove when I change the dem oscillator clock capacitor.
 

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Better to go for a modern DeltaSigma chip with EQ then... you don't want (really I mean) introduce filter there that has time issues...whatever a pass-band or a notch or anything more than first order for sub quantification noise :though it's not needed despite no over sampling : our ears are not in their 20 yo...


If passive I/V seems cool on the paper, one subjectivly has a better result with an active I/V without feedback. Buffers often are not really needed after but special personal conf.
 
You're wrong not to listen people that went here already... you 'are turning aroung in a glass with your traffo story... you try to reinvent a veiled wheel :rofl: (My TDA DAC is for sure sounding better than yours 🙂 )


Raimbow hui girl's (R H is a woman) dacs was for me 15 years ago with ad1865 and tda1541 dac and you want to give me some lessons with scopes picture from a badlayout... comon ! Go fisch ! They sounded like hell !
 
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MORE SCREENSHOTS

I decided to investigate the notch at 70Hz. So I swapped the Technics cd player for a modified Teac PD H01 slot in type from which I had already extracted the I2S signals. The Technics does not output I2S but left justified which means adding a jumper to Ian Canada's Fifo, whereas the Teac does output true I2S so the jumper was removed. The notch is absent. The peak at 50hz is a mains / grounding issue.

The second pair of screenshots were captured using a low cost USB dac fed from the Teac via Spdif for comparison purposes.
 

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More spectra

Image 1 is with the analyser input shorted. The same spike at 415Hz is present on all images and I have no idea where its from.

2 is of the usb dac - 5khz signal

3 is my dac with the resistor across the secondary of the Sowter transformer being about 6K
4 is my dac with a 1k load resistor. This reduces the output by 1/2 (6db) but cleans up the high end (above 12k)
5 is the usb dac at 1k
 

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