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Toscanini

A project log for Audiophile-sounding DAC for almost no money

0DAC - delivers engaging, immersive sound with a pricetag at least two orders of magnitude from commercial audiophile DACs

richard-dudleyRichard Dudley 12/13/2022 at 07:590 Comments

Toscanini is an upgrade to Kubelik. Once I discovered that TDA1387s can be 'overclocked' I wanted to incorporate overclocked chips in a DAC, Toscanini is it. Toscanini runs from a lower power supply voltage - ignore the +20V on the silkscreen, its an error. As a result gives up the ability not to clip during inter-sample overs. It's a little more 'green' (not just because of its PCB colour) in energy consumption.

Here's the first prototype :



Image filtering is 3rd order just as with Kubelik and Dorati but the inductors can be sourced from Mouser in a couple of forms, either SMD or TH.

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