I’m very impressed with your skills in woodwork, metal work/machining and electrical. Your the jack of all trades. Regardless of what anyone else thinks - when you can build something like that by yourself , it is without doubt the best in the world to you. Job well done, congratulations from Sydney Australia.
@@jimbendtsen8841 indeed. And to note that he edited the comment, yet left this most atrocious of errors in situ. That makes me think he did it on purpose, he meant to leave it there as an affront to the English language. He probably has some personal beef with grammar, most likely going back to his childhood. These conflicts sometimes span generations, and are nearly impossible to settle peacefully.
All my players are fully shielded internally Keeps the music signal clean. People aren’t familiar with the science of damping and shielding and the results. I’m thrilled to hear a credible guy like you talk of doing this. Thanks for sharing.
So nice to see the dyi community helping others. Which I had the skill. I just have to buy already produced models but still enjoy the passion on the group.
LOL! I can´t help myself, but the Bass Speaker, the Baffle reminds me at a WC Seat.... The Design of it, the Straight Line on top, and the round shape afterwards... Amazing..lol... But nothing to be ashamed of. The Speaker look great. Fact is, i am just a mischievous Joker sometimes...lol! I swear! Just sometimes! 🤣🤣!
I'll have to admit that I'd be interested in a somewhat less perfectionist version of the design that uses a very high quality DC power supply instead of ultracapacitors.
I learned quite a bit from watching your wonderful video. Thank you for taking the time to document your adventures in hifi DIY. By the way, your style of presentation is perfect, completely at ease, very concise and to the point, with excellent flow from beginning to end. Well done all around.
A lot less money ... let's factor in his knowledge, skill, time and effort. I admire your ability/capability to finish this lovely looking component. Congrats!!!
I've just had a printer mishap that has rendered my 'WORLD'S GREATEST DAD' mugs unusable. You seem to be the only one in the world who could make use of what have become 'WORLD'S GREATEST DAC' mugs.
Nice... I bet it was a lot of work and hardcore listening. I like your loudspeaker x-overs on the floor - easier to tune them when they're out the boxes - the most proper DIY ;) Just saying 'Hi' from Ottawa and all best in 2023.
@@Gabster1 I look forward to hopefully see the video of your journey. I have the skills, but I need a bit more knowledge of the technology, and to decide what I would be most happy with building. I love that parts can be changed for the future. I'm currently learning the sounds of what I like most with different streamers and DAC's. I'm realizing the importance of quality individual components.
Sin palabras Maestro.....Una joya....Una obra de arte....Enhorabuena y felicidades por su gran labor solo al alcance de unos pocos....Un abrazo fraternal desde Las Islas Canarias (España)....
I’m very impressed with you skills! I wish i could mail you for a detailed buying list… Can you maybe upload a Google doc with all the used parts so I and everyone else can rebuild your DAC?
Thank you for such a great videos about my lovely audio DIY topics. Even if I will not find free time for those (yet), I am enjoying so much of those DIY audio equipment - I think its amazing Idea to build such a device by yourself
Congratulations. Really nicely done. I also built a Streamer / DAC using Iancanada FIFOPi and consider it amazing. The attention to isolation and power supplies is key to go from great to state of the art. Well done. BTW, your case with the wood trim is awesome.
@@Gabster1 Thank you. You as well. It is an extremely fulfilling hobby. Like you, I had to figure out what makes stuff work well. How to solder. How to lay it out and isolate. Then wood working and metal working. It's engaging. And then like today, I listen and am amazed and proud.
This a series of 5 or 6 videos you will see a list in the descriptions but you need to have experience as it can be very dangerous working with ultra capacitors
I like how it looks, it seems a commercial product. But I think that the metal box should have some holes to let some air pass through the electronics, it seems that part will suffer overheating as it cannot evacuate heat easily. Probably the DACs will get quite hot when working at high frequecies.
curious: what was the reason for not putting the ultra capacitors in the power supply , would the cable length cause an issue ? Would covering the clocks cause them to get too warm ,
Great Video and lots of ideas, for the dual Mono DAC, it has three power inputs, I believe the center one is VCCA - for the onboard clock - which you are not using as you have the Master clock from the FIFO, have you look at that ?- as saving an Ultra Cap unit would be nice in this build. I have tried this and the system still works fine - and you will see a floating voltage of about 2.6V across the VCCA terminals - which is a bit strange. Would like to hear your considered opinion
Yes you are correct it does work without the center VCCA but I start getting issues the ess controller not recognising the Dual mono dac ....... not always. I spent hours trying to figure out the problem it seems to happen with UCPure batteries something to do with a tiny delay between the ess controller powering before the Dac ended up leaving it powered. I plan on renovating the Dac with the new parts hopefully i can free the VCaa this time will see.
By Jeeves this was a brilliant video. So absolutely no disrespect in my one rather petty observation, no offence intended, but those Woofer Facia panels, for the life of me I couldn't get the image of toilet seats out of my head!
Hi! Subscribed from your 10 song videos, but when I saw that beautiful DAC, I had to see the video. It’s so beautiful, and live everyone says, incredible craftsmanship. Just finished a modest build of CSSAudio Criton, and would never thought of DIY’ing a DAC, but now I’m curious! Don’t know if I missed it, or I’m not there yet in the video, but how much that build cost? Thanks.
I really enjoy your channel. Just so I understand when claim World's Second Best DIY DAC. What was the first again? I have very strong feelings your DIY DAC is amazing, however have you compared to other DACs out there in the retail market? Do you provide a Kit for this DAC?
Where did you find the hat separating the FifoPi Q7 and the DAC? Clearly you put the copper over it and I guess I does not have anything metal under the copper sheet!
Ian used to have a shield board for free I added copper to it but you can do the same with a double sided copper board can buy them from any electronics place usually used to make your own circuit boards just watch the edges not to contact anything :)
Good job. I see that you are using ESS DAC converters in your project (ESS 9038). My opinion is that ESS DAC chips are producing the best sound. I believe this sounds great.
Very beautiful DAC and sounds great. I enjoyed watching the video. If I attempted this, I might blow it up. Let me know if you start making a few. Btw, what did it cost to make this DAC? Exclude your time, which I'm sure was valuable. Rob
Hi ....top end craftsmanship and implementation. Admire your woodwork and electronic knowledge. Would you be open to building just the case similar to what you have for the dac ?
Have you consider using optical fiber for the ethernet link (SFP)? It is not as expensive as it used to be and it is a good means of galvanic isolation from the network.
Sure you can if it is for yourself but it will not be safe for fires also not ideal for noise shielding. Ideally should be metal all around grounded to earth and wood outside the metal
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I’m very impressed with your skills in woodwork, metal work/machining and electrical. Your the jack of all trades. Regardless of what anyone else thinks - when you can build something like that by yourself , it is without doubt the best in the world to you. Job well done, congratulations from Sydney Australia.
Thank You Paul Sydney is on my Bucket list to visit one day :)
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@@jimbendtsen8841 indeed. And to note that he edited the comment, yet left this most atrocious of errors in situ. That makes me think he did it on purpose, he meant to leave it there as an affront to the English language. He probably has some personal beef with grammar, most likely going back to his childhood. These conflicts sometimes span generations, and are nearly impossible to settle peacefully.
You're. Not your. Ffs.
@@kencur9690What?
Thanks!
Wow Thank you so much :) Appreciate the support
All my players are fully shielded internally
Keeps the music signal clean. People aren’t familiar with the science of damping and shielding and the results. I’m thrilled to hear a credible guy like you talk of doing this. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you yes damping and shielding are important.
So nice to see the dyi community helping others. Which I had the skill. I just have to buy already produced models but still enjoy the passion on the group.
I'm a DIYer and your proyect exceeds my capabilities, it's amazing what you do, congrats!!!
Happy to hear that!
LOL! I can´t help myself, but the Bass Speaker, the Baffle reminds me at a WC Seat.... The Design of it, the Straight Line on top, and the round shape afterwards... Amazing..lol... But nothing to be ashamed of. The Speaker look great. Fact is, i am just a mischievous Joker sometimes...lol! I swear! Just sometimes! 🤣🤣!
I'll have to admit that I'd be interested in a somewhat less perfectionist version of the design that uses a very high quality DC power supply instead of ultracapacitors.
I learned quite a bit from watching your wonderful video. Thank you for taking the time to document your adventures in hifi DIY. By the way, your style of presentation is perfect, completely at ease, very concise and to the point, with excellent flow from beginning to end. Well done all around.
Thank you glad you liked it
That’s very impressive. Love the quality of the workmanship
A lot less money ... let's factor in his knowledge, skill, time and effort. I admire your ability/capability to finish this lovely looking component. Congrats!!!
I love the approach and precision craftsmanship - this is how a high quality component is made! Good luck in the future!
I've just had a printer mishap that has rendered my 'WORLD'S GREATEST DAD' mugs unusable. You seem to be the only one in the world who could make use of what have become 'WORLD'S GREATEST DAC' mugs.
you just have to build a dac now :)
That looks and sounds awesome!
You're very talented, Gaby.
Excellent post. Thank you for leading on this. I'm going to take on the DAC.
what a cool idea running the dac off of the capacitors... look forward to studying what you are doing. thx
Cool, thank you
Subscribed for the IanCanada stuff. So glad I did, this is easily in my top 3 audio channels.
This looks like a very good build
Very nice build. I'm sold on it and want to do the same. Thanks.
What a build quality....I bet it sound phenomenal
Thank you Very happy with it
Hopefully the sound matches the very impressive aesthetics. A work of art.
Thank you it does 😊
Nice... I bet it was a lot of work and hardcore listening. I like your loudspeaker x-overs on the floor - easier to tune them when they're out the boxes - the most proper DIY ;)
Just saying 'Hi' from Ottawa and all best in 2023.
Thank you I used to live in Ottawa years ago nice to hear
It takes a lot to impress me, you have definitely impressed me. Beautiful work.
REALLY BEAUTYFUL SETUP!!! AND GREAT BUILD!!
Nice job master! Congratulations from São Paulo - Brazil
I am very impressed 😎👍
I've had to watch so many videos to begin understanding the value in what you have built.
Thank you, building a finished products is fun but takes a lot more effort. There is a plan to do a upgrade on it in about couple month.
@@Gabster1 I look forward to hopefully see the video of your journey.
I have the skills, but I need a bit more knowledge of the technology, and to decide what I would be most happy with building. I love that parts can be changed for the future.
I'm currently learning the sounds of what I like most with different streamers and DAC's. I'm realizing the importance of quality individual components.
Just wow! What a beautiful build. 🤩 Congrats on the achievement 👏
Sin palabras Maestro.....Una joya....Una obra de arte....Enhorabuena y felicidades por su gran labor solo al alcance de unos pocos....Un abrazo fraternal desde Las Islas Canarias (España)....
Well done Sir......well done!
I’m very impressed with you skills! I wish i could mail you for a detailed buying list…
Can you maybe upload a Google doc with all the used parts so I and everyone else can rebuild your DAC?
Thank you for such a great videos about my lovely audio DIY topics. Even if I will not find free time for those (yet), I am enjoying so much of those DIY audio equipment - I think its amazing Idea to build such a device by yourself
Best looking dac streamer I've seen congratulations on it
Appreciate that
Congratulations. Really nicely done. I also built a Streamer / DAC using Iancanada FIFOPi and consider it amazing. The attention to isolation and power supplies is key to go from great to state of the art. Well done.
BTW, your case with the wood trim is awesome.
Thank you glad you are experiencing the beautiful journey
@@Gabster1 Thank you. You as well. It is an extremely fulfilling hobby. Like you, I had to figure out what makes stuff work well. How to solder. How to lay it out and isolate. Then wood working and metal working. It's engaging. And then like today, I listen and am amazed and proud.
Master - golden hands!
Fascinating video, thanks for sharing it all with us, truly amazing.
If it sounds as good as it looks, you’ve got a remarkable Dac, bravo & thank you for sharing 🙏🏼
Thanks for listening
Beautiful work! Much to be proud of here. Just stumbled onto the channel. Subscribed.
I like your woody theme and give electronics shielding but with open air 👍🏻 Looks amazing
Best of the best . How I wish I could have those tools 😊.
Loved the b roll
hope you could built small compact dac
Looking foward to seeing the details. Thank you!
The long 1h detailed version is scheduled to be released on Dec 26
Nice one!!! I remember a Danish amplifier which used batteries as psu. I think it was a Thule back in the early 90's.
Holfi...
Yes. Now I remeber. It was made of 100% wood. Even the volume controll.
Enjoy every much of your video and it's a beautify unit, how can I get a BOM listing to build one, thanks
This a series of 5 or 6 videos you will see a list in the descriptions but you need to have experience as it can be very dangerous working with ultra capacitors
Wow thats work of art !
I like how it looks, it seems a commercial product. But I think that the metal box should have some holes to let some air pass through the electronics, it seems that part will suffer overheating as it cannot evacuate heat easily. Probably the DACs will get quite hot when working at high frequecies.
Now that's a NICE enclosure! Well done!
Thank you :)
You are at another level!!! Gabster sounds like a great hifi company name
Some amazing craftsmanship!! Love your videos
Looks great! Thanks for sharing with us
curious: what was the reason for not putting the ultra capacitors in the power supply , would the cable length cause an issue ? Would covering the clocks cause them to get too warm ,
the cable length would be a an issue
World’s best clickbait! But that’s OK, you made it! That’s awesome.
Magnificent Obsession!
Great ...... very amazing !!!
Masterful! 🫡
Great Video and lots of ideas, for the dual Mono DAC, it has three power inputs, I believe the center one is VCCA - for the onboard clock - which you are not using as you have the Master clock from the FIFO, have you look at that ?- as saving an Ultra Cap unit would be nice in this build. I have tried this and the system still works fine - and you will see a floating voltage of about 2.6V across the VCCA terminals - which is a bit strange. Would like to hear your considered opinion
Yes you are correct it does work without the center VCCA but I start getting issues the ess controller not recognising the Dual mono dac ....... not always. I spent hours trying to figure out the problem it seems to happen with UCPure batteries something to do with a tiny delay between the ess controller powering before the Dac ended up leaving it powered. I plan on renovating the Dac with the new parts hopefully i can free the VCaa this time will see.
is there any chance you will do a detailed step by step tutorial on how to build this? love the video!
There are 5 other videos on my Chanel that do just that
Hi Gabster, is it for sale?🤪
great great G R E A T WORK !!! CONGRATULATIONS !!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
I hope you review the HoloAudio - May DAC - KTE May
a lot call it giant killer
Nice attention to detail. Next step would be to solder the wires in, instead of screwing
good point for sure but for now will wait till I am sure no more changes are happening.
By Jeeves this was a brilliant video.
So absolutely no disrespect in my one rather petty observation, no offence intended, but those Woofer Facia panels, for the life of me I couldn't get the image of toilet seats out of my head!
World's second Best DIY Dac and Streamer, believe........
you decided not to use the reclockPi?
Could not tell a difference with or without the Q7 has a built in one
man, that is from another planet ;)
Awesome... Thank you sir, great works 🙏
Most welcome
Jo super nápad tohle je asi jeden z nejlepších zdrojů co jsem viděl . Sice je to trochu až moc veliké a drahé , ale dává to smysl. Dobrá práce .
Gorgeous equipment! You really should try a ladder dac (R2R) as I have found them to sound the best.
Looking at trying one soon
@@Gabster1 I'd also like to learn about your findings.
May I get the documentation?
When art and technology united.
Congratulations & welcome
Go Ahead
Very nice setup
Amazing work!
Great work, do you have schematics for the wiring?
Not really the long video to be released on the 26 has a bit more info.
Really amazing project. You got it right
DIY level : GOD !
Great work done.
But, in the end, everything said and done, total amount is ????$
$3000
@@Gabster1 Thx
Thanks for the great videos and amazing work! Is there going to a more detailed, maybe even step-by-step video of the assembly of all the parts?
I did not hear you talk about the voltage regulators. What is your opinion on choosing the best ones? I'm thinking of ripple.
Hi! Subscribed from your 10 song videos, but when I saw that beautiful DAC, I had to see the video. It’s so beautiful, and live everyone says, incredible craftsmanship.
Just finished a modest build of CSSAudio Criton, and would never thought of DIY’ing a DAC, but now I’m curious!
Don’t know if I missed it, or I’m not there yet in the video, but how much that build cost? Thanks.
I want to build the same. May I get documentation, please.
Part 1 to 6 are all available documentation it is all in there
Nice work but mixing old style sound meter with a modern media screen just doesn't blend well. It just looks weird.
This guy looks like he’s making cakes make it look so easy
what is the total price of the parts?
I really enjoy your channel. Just so I understand when claim World's Second Best DIY DAC. What was the first again? I have very strong feelings your DIY DAC is amazing, however have you compared to other DACs out there in the retail market? Do you provide a Kit for this DAC?
A high tech work of art!
Impressive. Congratulations
Thank you! Cheers!
Hi Gaby
Awesome project. What was the total costs, roughly?
Total cost?
Haha, I'm also have this idea to modify our DIY Pre and Power amp like that !!
Where did you find the hat separating the FifoPi Q7 and the DAC? Clearly you put the copper over it and I guess I does not have anything metal under the copper sheet!
Ian used to have a shield board for free
I added copper to it but you can do the same with a double sided copper board can buy them from any electronics place usually used to make your own circuit boards just watch the edges not to contact anything :)
Good job. I see that you are using ESS DAC converters in your project (ESS 9038). My opinion is that ESS DAC chips are producing the best sound. I believe this sounds great.
I wouldn't say the outright best, but they are definitely the best bang for buck.
May I please inquire total cost. Thank You Kindly
close to $3000
How many of the parts did you have to fabricate yourself?
Very beautiful DAC and sounds great. I enjoyed watching the video. If I attempted this, I might blow it up. Let me know if you start making a few. Btw, what did it cost to make this DAC? Exclude your time, which I'm sure was valuable. Rob
Thanks close to $3000
Hi ....top end craftsmanship and implementation. Admire your woodwork and electronic knowledge. Would you be open to building just the case similar to what you have for the dac ?
Have you consider using optical fiber for the ethernet link (SFP)? It is not as expensive as it used to be and it is a good means of galvanic isolation from the network.
Great job!
Thanks!
❤❤LOVE IT❤❤ YES 1000%
Amazing job.
Impressive. But how is the RPi connected to Q7? Is it happening through the GPIO?
Correct
sorry for the dumb question but can a wooden surround be used with just an aluminum base and rear? Amazing build by the way.
Sure you can if it is for yourself but it will not be safe for fires also not ideal for noise shielding.
Ideally should be metal all around grounded to earth and wood outside the metal
Well it certainly looks good 😍