New DAC board for my Pi: Audiophonics I-Sabre DAC ES9023

[Starterman]

I see that there is now a V2 with the connectors on the other side of the pcb:

http://www.audiophonics.fr/en/kits-m...s-p-10176.html




Apparently there's Un boîtier aluminium spécialement to go with it, but I cannot find it:
http://www.audiophonics.fr/en/boitie...ers-c-506.html

[Kit1cat]

Could be tempted with the new v2 with the headphone socket, not sure how this would work seeing the DAC has a fixed output, suppose it would need a player with software volume control, would this not defeat the object of having a fixed volume control?

[cyclopse]

With a bit of drilling managed to get the Audiophonics DAC into the IQ Audio case.

[ReggieB]

If you have problems loading drivers for the Audiophonics board with runeaudio, this might help:

http://www.runeaudio.com/forum/the-n...-40.html#p5386

You need to uncomment the driver from the list in /boot/config.txt

[struth]

My wooden case arrived a few days ago, and I've finally got around to drilling out the holes for the DAC RCAs. I'm very pleased with results.





The case is made by a Spanish Guitar maker.

did you have to elongate them or was there no holes to start with Rob?
i ve got mine in the standard plastic box with one side off. its still solid enough but like the look of those.. is there air holes

[Rothchild]

If you have problems loading drivers for the Audiophonics board with runeaudio, this might help:

http://www.runeaudio.com/forum/the-n...-40.html#p5386

You need to uncomment the driver from the list in /boot/config.txt

I think most distros have now worked around this and included some sort of configuration option that saves you having to edit the config file directly - this fix appears to have been an interim state when the driver got rolled in to the kernel (and they changed to the 'overlay' approach) but none of the distros had code to switch the drivers yet.

[struth]

After a fair few sessions with this new combo(rpi2b 900khz and I-Sabre 24/192 Dac using MoOde, that is is light years ahead of the of the old, superb rpi2b iqdac with Volumio. Absolutely no complaints that i can find and makes my cd system sound pants in comparison.

[ReggieB]

did you have to elongate them or was there no holes to start with Rob?
i ve got mine in the standard plastic box with one side off. its still solid enough but like the look of those.. is there air holes

The wooden box had no holes - so I drilled holes for a RCAs. I took a little time looking for a case with the extra height to accommodate the DAC board. Most of them aren't high enough. The fact the case was wooden was an added attraction as I though it would be easier to drill.

The wooden case does have a couple of slots - that I think are to allow ribbon cables access. The box doesn't get hot - or even warm. I tend to leave my Pi on all the time.

My other Pi system is in one of the IQaudIO cases. I think that case is nice, but I would have had to enlarge the RCA holes to fit the Audiophonics DAC. I though that would be ugly and wanted to check out the alternatives - hence the wooden case.

[ReggieB]

After a fair few sessions with this new combo(rpi2b 900khz and I-Sabre 24/192 Dac using MoOde, that is is light years ahead of the of the old, superb rpi2b iqdac with Volumio. Absolutely no complaints that i can find and makes my cd system sound pants in comparison.

Glad I'm not alone in thinking the I-Sabre DAC is a step up. I love it!

[mikmas]

After a fair few sessions with this new combo(rpi2b 900khz and I-Sabre 24/192 Dac using MoOde,

Sounds good Grant - did you get the same version as Rob did (i.e. ES9023) ??
Only asking as there are a few on the Audiophonics site and I'm not too bothered about no having a headphone output...