KevT wrote: 
> That's the one.  I've built a 4 stack and it's the only DAC I've heard
> that I prefer to my Audio Synthesis DAX2.  I hope to eventually build
> the DAC, power supplies and Wandboard into one box, then it'll be a Linn
> beater for certain.

Are you using Doede's custom Sowter transformer or cap coupled passive
out? 

(I've only got a single deck which is used in conjunction with a Broskie
Unbalancer tube output stage. It was the first USB DAC I ever used with
the WB, and is the main DAC connected to my non-development Wandboard
that I use for headphone listening while I'm "working".)

If you are not a NOS zealot, which I doubt you are if you can get over
the concept of a sigma-delta DAC being the nucleus of a non-oversample
DAC..... Try upampling via squeezelite with DDAC1794. Tick the upsample
checkbox on the squeezelite web gui page, put "vM::2" into the upsample
options textfield next to it, "Save and Conditionally Restart". If you
have the latest firmware on the WaveIO, you'll be upsampling 44k1 (and
multiples) to 352k8 and 48k (and multiples) to 384k. (176k4 and 192k if
earlier WaveIO firmware revision.) You probably also want to increase
alsa buffer and period size too. Put "35280:8820::" in the alsa params
field on the squeezelite config page, "Save and Conditionally Restart".
Give it a try. Oversample via squeezelite is much preferable to the
built-in OS and DF most of the current breed of DAC chips. Oversample
and DF per-se isn't evil, it's the quality of the implementation of it,
something John Swenson, designer of the Community Squeeze DAC board, is
a firm believer in too.


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