JohnSwenson wrote: > There are some people that equate "gold" connectors with "high end". If > they don't see a gold connector they will assume the device is "cheap" > and no good. > > If I don't use gold connectors I don't a lot of people complaining it's > not gold. > > My personal preference is for the more robust connector, but I wanted to > make sure I wasn't going to have an uprising by not using gold > connectors. > > John S.
Gold is necessary in parts of the world where you have very humid climate or where you live close by the sea. Gold prevents the connectors from corroding. In HK where I live, this is absolutely necessary. In fact, cheap connectors with thin layer of gold don't work too good either. On another note... I have the intention to purchase the final DAC carrier board. My understanding is that the whole thing is to be fitted in a Hammond 1455T case. If this is the case, would there be room to add a micro SD card slot and two USB ports? I know the micro SD card slot issue has been brought up in the CSOS F19 thread recently. Now, having the card slot that is accessible by the user is great for updating the OS, etc. But more importantly, I'm thinking what if we put a faster micro SD controller in there to speed up the OS? Specifically, I run the LMS on my Wandboard Quad and I see that the speed of LMS is pretty much limited by the disc read/write speed (disc=micro SD). I'm using the Toshiba Exceria Type HD micro SD card. This card has 30MB/s write and 95MB/s read speed and it only costs me <US$9 for 8GB. It'd be nice to be able to make use of a fast micro SD to speed up LMS or the OS in general. Finally, I have a suggestion for decoupling caps. I'd avoid using X7R ceramics as they are microphonics. For all my projects, I use Panasonic ECPU (or Cornell Dubilier) acrylic (PPS) films. They sounds wonderful and the only problem is that they do take up slightly more space. The size of a 0.1uF is 0805 instead of 0603 or smaller. IMHO, it is well worth it for using this film caps in all places instead of regular ceramics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
