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Got this kit AUDIOPHONICS RaspDAC I-Sabre V3 DAC ES9023 TCXO few weeks ago.

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It was a bit tricky as it came with no instruction what so ever, wrong parts in bag(realised 2 weeks after trying to make it work ) unfinished, none working software....
So a bit of nightmare to be honest :D

But with a great help from guys at RuneAudio (using now in unit and Roberts 747) a managed to put all together and is fully working.
And sounds very good. At least to my and few other ears

Anyone else with same DAC board or other Raspberry Pi project?

Raspberry Pi's for eating.......
But Tel, Fret, and the rest of the Pi Monkeys should be along soon.

jammy395 wrote:Raspberry Pi's for eating.......
But Tel, Fret, and the rest of the Pi Monkeys should be along soon.

I love Pi's .. to eat or to play with it. And I dont mean like this

Don't know what the Dacs like but love Steve Strauss and Pink Floyd

antonio66 wrote: love Steve Strauss and Pink Floyd

yup, great music

I'm due to be getting a Cambridge Dacmagic XS this week - it has the same Sabre D/A chip. Will be using it as a USB headphone amp with a Pi 2B and Volumio 2.

I'm still using my Durio Sound DACs on a pi B+, and I'm still bowled over by the sound quality. My CD player was sold on Ebay a couple of weeks ago and I have no plans to replace it.

Ideally I'd like something that's packaged a little more robustly, as PCB's with wires sticking out of them are unsightly and prone to breakage, which I'm certain I will do at some point. That said, file based music systems are the future, and superior to CD - IMHO, of course.

I might be interested in the Audiophonics kit. Do you think it's worth the 199 Euros? Best buy now before we have to pay VAT on EU imports.

walterwhite wrote:I'm still using my Durio Sound DACs on a pi B+, and I'm still bowled over by the sound quality. My CD player was sold on Ebay a couple of weeks ago and I have no plans to replace it.

Ideally I'd like something that's packaged a little more robustly, as PCB's with wires sticking out of them are unsightly and prone to breakage, which I'm certain I will do at some point. That said, file based music systems are the future, and superior to CD - IMHO, of course.

I might be interested in the Audiophonics kit. Do you think it's worth the 199 Euros? Best buy now before we have to pay VAT on EU imports.

in my opinnion it is well worth it.I took it to my dealer and we campare the sound with somestreamers/DACs price as high as £4K
Few of the guys who listen to it said its very good, and very close to those expensive units.
How far are you from Dorset? If not far you are welcome to audiotion

Unfortunately Dorset's a bout a five hour drive, so not really on the cards, thanks all the same.

What do you actually get in the kit? It looks like you get the DAC (i2S?), a Raspberry pi of some description, the case, an LED (is it?) display unit and the ribbon cables to connect it to the GPIO pins and a few other bits and pieces. I take it that the HDD has to be external? No room in the case? Is there a dedicated PSU or is it wall-wart? Sorry for all the questions, but it looks very interesting, and could well be what I'm looking for in a file server. TBH I've heard a few expensive ones in show rooms and they've all sucked

walterwhite wrote:Unfortunately Dorset's a bout a five hour drive, so not really on the cards, thanks all the same.

What do you actually get in the kit? It looks like you get the DAC (i2S?), a Raspberry pi of some description, the case, an LED (is it?) display unit and the ribbon cables to connect it to the GPIO pins and a few other bits and pieces. I take it that the HDD has to be external? No room in the case? Is there a dedicated PSU or is it wall-wart? Sorry for all the questions, but it looks very interesting, and could well be what I'm looking for in a file server. TBH I've heard a few expensive ones in show rooms and they've all sucked

I choosed cheaper option without RPi as I have few at home :D
But if you order full kit you will get

• alu case
• OLED display
• power button (I-Sabre DAC has power management built in)
• short HDMI cable to bring the connection from RPi to the case
• mounting bits, bolts, nuts, cable ribbons for power button and OLED

My kit involved some soldering as the OLED needed header to be soldered on. It was supplied even with solder wire . Not sure if new kits have this pre-built. When I was ordering it was just pre-order and released few days later. So I have had it in first batch, pretty messed :D as I have a lot of bits in packaging which were meant for older V2

PSU is not included! Youy would need your own. Its powered through the DAC board which pass power over GPIO to RPi which is very good. Not the other way round where you would get dirty power to DAC from RPi.
Thei recommend 6V maximum 12V cos DAC is going to take a bit of and RPi need 5V. I would not go for 12V as it may start overheat a bit. I bought LPS with variable out which I set to 9V