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  1. My bad on the 192khz possibility. Sounds like that requires oversampling which most tda1543 designs don't use anyway. Not sure on the heat thing. The DAC I have has the chips laid out flat on the board. The first 7 reach a temperature of around 135F and the 8th one 100F. I would imagine that the receiver chip, capacitors, op-amps, power supply, etc would also make a difference in the result. I'm going to say that the one I have got those things right or at least close enough based on the sound quality.
  2. Picked up an 8xTDA1543 DAC and I am pretty happy with the sound. It seems warmer and more detailed than my Peachtree Dac-IT. Mine ACCEPTS 24/96, but it is not technologically possible that it is outputting at anything other than 16/44. 24/96 is just what the digital receiver chip supports. Hi Rez mania has swept across the audiophile landscape now that it can be done for dirt cheap. The evidence seems to indicate that other than favorable remastering used on some hi-rez recordings, there is nothing being gained except inaudible noise by increasing the sampling and bit rates. Why do you think SACD and DVD-Audio failed?
  3. Fresh from China. I got the version with AD847 op amps and Sanyo capacitors. I was also lucky enough to get one that has the chimps running at 8 volts which means that no resistor mods are needed. Very solidly build unit. Remarkable sound for something south of $200. Took it to a friend's house and it held its own, maybe even bettered in some ways against 3 other DACs including a Benchmark DAC1. Warm, analog sounding with detail for days. I'm hearing things I never knew were in the music. Makes me wonder what the advantage in digital filtering and oversampling is.
  4. This actually got me close to working with a few rubs and a deal breaker. Rub- The version of Kodi is one version out of date. Rub- Not an Elec version of Kodi so no bluetooth or wireless options. Using wired internet to the PI, so I still have internet and I don't desperately need bluetooth in Kodi. Dealbreaker- Most videos give me a few seconds of audio and no video. I'm guessing this is a codec issue. A cursory search for this issue suggested that I need to purchase codecs. Everything just works out of the box in OpenElec and ElecLibre. Is there a way to fix any of these issues?
  5. I was able able to convert the .img file of Moode 2.7 to the SquashFS and use BerryBoot to install it. Moode does work, but my I2S based DAC does not. I tried editing the config.txt file, but this did not help. Is there any way to get a duel boot with these two programs working? Moode is much better for audio than Kodi, but obviously cannot do all of the other things that KODI can do. Switching micro SD cards every time I want to switch from one task to the other is a pain.
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