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Using an old CD player to Make a DAC
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<blockquote data-quote="handsome" data-source="post: 48626" data-attributes="member: 772"><p>it is indeed possible. but.....</p><p>you can remove the DAC chips themselves (and their support chips; receiver, etc) but then you need to make a new PCB. Alternatively you could tap into the DAC input (provided it is an S/PDIF input - this is the standard digital input/output format) add a socket thereto and away you go. but....</p><p></p><p>being a one box cd player maybe the transport feeds the DAC directly (no S/PDIF), then you will need to build a receiver that will accept an S/PDIF input.</p><p></p><p>so it sounds like you are buggered but perhaps not...</p><p>so either get someone who knows to take a look or get schematics and see exactly what the story is within and whether you can simply add a digital input or, if the DACs are indeed good DACs there may well be a DIY PCB available out there for you to transplant them. for example these buggers http://www.analogmetric.com/category.php?id=37 offer some DIY kits for various DACs. </p><p></p><p>technically what you propose is doable it's just how much PT will be required. There are a lot of decent second hand DACs around as well as the little Cambridge DACmagic which is a corker and can handle modern high-res formats your DACs will be stuck with 44kHz/16bit material......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="handsome, post: 48626, member: 772"] it is indeed possible. but..... you can remove the DAC chips themselves (and their support chips; receiver, etc) but then you need to make a new PCB. Alternatively you could tap into the DAC input (provided it is an S/PDIF input - this is the standard digital input/output format) add a socket thereto and away you go. but.... being a one box cd player maybe the transport feeds the DAC directly (no S/PDIF), then you will need to build a receiver that will accept an S/PDIF input. so it sounds like you are buggered but perhaps not... so either get someone who knows to take a look or get schematics and see exactly what the story is within and whether you can simply add a digital input or, if the DACs are indeed good DACs there may well be a DIY PCB available out there for you to transplant them. for example these buggers http://www.analogmetric.com/category.php?id=37 offer some DIY kits for various DACs. technically what you propose is doable it's just how much PT will be required. There are a lot of decent second hand DACs around as well as the little Cambridge DACmagic which is a corker and can handle modern high-res formats your DACs will be stuck with 44kHz/16bit material...... [/QUOTE]
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