Just taken apart my £5 Chinese DAC by removing 2 screws !
What's the verdict ?
Interested to learn what can be done power supply wise.
Chinese £5 DAC laid bare
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Re: Chinese £5 DAC laid bare
The answer was already given by Richard. Something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/122732460380.
Works and sounds fine.
Works and sounds fine.
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Re: Chinese £5 DAC laid bare
I might open the cheapy with remote for comparison.
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Re: Chinese £5 DAC laid bare
Sorry I already have one of those. My question was really to see if there was anyway to use a super BBPSU for example and bypass the socket. The plan is to use the DAC with a Raspberry Pi / Digi Pro + as a music server using 2 x 300va transformers in a separate PSU. .
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Re: Chinese £5 DAC laid bare
Looks like it's an integrated dac on a chip with receiver, dac and clock and outputs all on one part. One psu rail, no decoupling, precious little regulation, waste of time.
Re: Chinese £5 DAC laid bare
Not what Richard thought. He would have used it in a potential NVA Dac with seriously big transformer. Anyway will have a go with a 300vA one with good regulator and see how good it can become.
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Re: Chinese £5 DAC laid bare
Mine is nothing like the one above and has more separate chips on the little board and both sides too, despite looking similar externally. You may just find a half decent wallwart plus an inline Sbooster may be enough.
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