DAC Tour

[wee tee cee]

will j play only improve my i tunes music library on the lap top or will it improve playback from spotify premium......this stuff bamboozles me........

[jkeny]

Jplay won't play MP3 files & AFAIK won't deal with streamed music but if you want your PC audio sounding better than your CD player then this is the first & important step!

[John]

Jplay mini is my preferred choice of media playback, best in extreme hibernation but not enough ram on my laptop to allow this, but full hibernation mode is very good.
When at friends I often shown them the difference of what JPlay does compaired to Itunes, Itunes Jplay, mini and full hibernation. I find full hibernation very close to analogue and now have the the view that source playback has the biggest influnce on sound, even more so than the DAC
Sounds like a fun night and Ali DAC sounds pretty special

[bobbasrah]

.....Sounds like a fun night and Ali DAC sounds pretty special

Just so, especially considering it's cheap and humble origin before getting treated to hot bottles...

[Ali Tait]

Yep, £20 quid for the dac board from the bay.

[gamfot]

Hi

Ali, i also have that DIY KIT from ebay. Im very interested what kind of outputstage u use for yours. Do you have an schematic?


Regards

Roger

[Ali Tait]

Here you go -

[gamfot]

Hi

Thank you. This look interesting. Have u done any mods on the board. Caps Regulators etc...?

Regards

Roger

[John]

It might be good to do this in the DIY section guys

[Clive]

Before this thread gets enmeshed in the details of Nicks mods to a Chinese DAC, can I suggest a new thread is started for that discussion?

Comments complementary or otherwise vs the JK DACs on tour is what this thread is about, common courtesy to JK would be to take detailed discussions about the design of other DACs to a fresh thread.