@ truscellino > cheers for kind info, very helpful and interesting!
Funny how knowledge just leads to more question ...:-D Ok after some "research" I now actually have a specific question ;-) :-), but first I just want to make one thing clear. I'm by no means nowhere near some sort of electronics engineer or expert! Just guessing here but I would suspect that Paul has a lot of experience. So @ Paul, if one look at these 3 audiophonics dacs latest discussed : > https://www.audiophonics.fr/en/dac-and-interfaces-for-raspberry-pi/audiophonics-i-sabre-dac-es9023-raspberry-pi-a-b-20-i2s-p-11215.html https://www.audiophonics.fr/en/dac-and-interfaces-for-raspberry-pi/audiophonics-i-sabre-dac-es9023-tcxo-raspberry-pi-a-b-pi-3-pi-2-i2s-p-10296.html https://www.audiophonics.fr/en/dac-and-interfaces-for-raspberry-pi/audiophonics-i-sabre-v4-dac-es9023-tcxo-raspberry-pi-3-b-pi-3-b-pi-2-a-b-i2s-p-10657.html Anyone can see there is a clear price difference. And what I can understand they all have their own "onboard master clock" but the difference is that the two dearer ones have a better one. Hence the price difference one would think. Also it seems like the dearest one has a couple of "better" caps + the design is different with the two RCA outputs.(have not studied every detail, just a quick look) And from what I now hopefully understand, none of them has a "dedicated custom driver" but they all have the same ES9023 dac which I would think would make any of them "work" with the driver the OP is using in his set up? (with "work" meaning they can play "sound") Q : if there isn't a "custom driver that operate the clocks" could one say that the cheapest one is "best bang for bucks"? (assuming there's no need for the different RCA placing of the dearest one) And then from what you wrote : > > =Other pieces you would find in a custom driver would be some of the > DAC's, like the hifiberry DAC+Pro series that has on board master > clocks, these require special drivers to operate the clocks. Then how is the OP's card/clock running/controlled? I guess what I'm wondering is if when not having a "custom driver" for a dac is it then controlled by the Rpi clock? Sorry if that might be a very stupid question ... as mentioned earlier, I've no idea :-/ But I do know though that in digital audio the quality of the clock is very important. So trying to see/understand the point of using a dearer clock if one have an inferior designed driver. (or "might have" since I really don't know all aspects of digital audio SW design) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ doggod's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=46431 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111835 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
