erland wrote: > > I'm not sure if you are looking of a broad range of different type of > testers or if you are only looking for testers who can verify the > audiophile characteristics ?
Obviously everything on the board needs to work, whether that be the USB port, ethernet port or SPDIF out, but this is primarily about the on-board DAC analogue out. It will be the first chance for people to get to hear the audio output with the DAC chip John has chosen, the on-chip oversample / DF off, using sox to DF / upsample..... And get feedback on that. The sole reason for the existence of the board is that the SQ has to be several orders of magnitude better than that provided by the sgtl5000 on the default carrier board, otherwise there isn't any reason to replace it with a third-party DAC board. We already have a mix of people using different setups with different systems, at various price points. I'm confident, knowing what hardware is being used by many of the people who spoke up yesterday, that we will get some good feedback, and opinions regarding SQ. It's rather pointless placing an order for 200 DAC boards if the feedback is that the SQ is crap, compared to a $50 USB DAC that you can buy on eBay and plug into the default carrier board. To be blunt, the "product" is dead in the water, before it even got started, that being the case. The value proposition of the DAC board, (player), is audiophile SQ at non-audiophile pricing, not needing to spend an additional few hundred bucks on an external DAC. John has made some claims, (which I don't doubt for one minute), some are measurable, some are subjective. It is important that the feedback on SQ is that it is at least as good as the <= $500 DAC's that people are already using driven by the "stock" Wandboard. That the analogue output will work, the SPDIF out will work, the ethernet port will work, the USB port will work, the serial port will work, is a given. With the SOC design, the heavy lifting is still being done by the CPU board, the replacement carrier board is all about audio, the DAC chip, the high quality clocks.... That's what differs from the default carrier board. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98544 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
