Weekend Projects (Fun or Otherwise)

Have been working on the house lately , yesterday it was time to work on the living room

New furniture and assembled this entertainment thingy , hopefully will have the new tv installed that has more color than blue and magenta lol

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This was an indicator that assembly would be an adventure lol

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Have been working on the house lately , yesterday it was time to work on the living room

New furniture and assembled this entertainment thingy , hopefully will have the new tv installed that has more color than blue and magenta lol

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This was an indicator that assembly would be an adventure lol

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STPE 4 fill it with knives and racks of swords...
 
New front rotors and pads. Discovered that my 13/16" socket fit the 21mm bolts for the caliper bracket...I don't have a 21mm socket or wrench. According to the interwebs, can use 21mm for 13/16", but not supposed to work the other way. Got lucky I guess.


 
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Is that some kind of fancy NAS?
Not exactly, at least not the way I have it configured. Its fundamental purpose is to discreetly break out and FIFO (first in first out) re-clock a digital audio signal using dedicated hardware with ultra low phase noise SC cut crystal oscillators on dedicated ultra low noise PSU rails, galvanically isolated from the incoming signal chain, and separately shielded in a faraday cage (actually multiple cages for the mains/FIFO/compute sections of the chassis). The remediated digital signal is then sent to my DAC (digital to analogue) converter via I2S (inter IC sound) which is originally a protocol used board to board inside let's say a CD player. In other words it takes various digital music streaming sources and cleans it up to where it meets / beats a dedicated CD transport in audio quality.

But on top of the above core functionality you can see I've given it a touch screen based frontend which is running on Raspberry Pi Lite OS with internet access and also running a music streaming server (Lyrion). Lyrion has many capabilities, NAS indexing and streaming being one of them. But, my current use case isn't NAS - rather it's to stream from Qobuz, Tidal, etc with lossless ultra low jitter and ultra low noise input to my DAC.

The hardware is not only state of the art in componentry and function but is modular and modifiable (e.g. I chose to upgrade PSU rails with ultracapacitor filtration, I chose top of the line SC cut crystal oscillators, and I could add optical and spdif output via GPIO expansion), and obviously the OS and software are configurable to nearly anything so I have a true gem on my hands IMO. Maybe I'll acquire a library of music files and start NAS streaming...
 
Not exactly, at least not the way I have it configured. Its fundamental purpose is to discreetly break out and FIFO (first in first out) re-clock a digital audio signal using dedicated hardware with ultra low phase noise SC cut crystal oscillators on dedicated ultra low noise PSU rails, galvanically isolated from the incoming signal chain, and separately shielded in a faraday cage (actually multiple cages for the mains/FIFO/compute sections of the chassis). The remediated digital signal is then sent to my DAC (digital to analogue) converter via I2S (inter IC sound) which is originally a protocol used board to board inside let's say a CD player. In other words it takes various digital music streaming sources and cleans it up to where it meets / beats a dedicated CD transport in audio quality.

But on top of the above core functionality you can see I've given it a touch screen based frontend which is running on Raspberry Pi Lite OS with internet access and also running a music streaming server (Lyrion). Lyrion has many capabilities, NAS indexing and streaming being one of them. But, my current use case isn't NAS - rather it's to stream from Qobuz, Tidal, etc with lossless ultra low jitter and ultra low noise input to my DAC.

The hardware is not only state of the art in componentry and function but is modular and modifiable (e.g. I chose to upgrade PSU rails with ultracapacitor filtration, I chose top of the line SC cut crystal oscillators, and I could add optical and spdif output via GPIO expansion), and obviously the OS and software are configurable to nearly anything so I have a true gem on my hands IMO. Maybe I'll acquire a library of music files and start NAS streaming...
Well, that cleared it up! 😁
 
So basically a custom DAC for streaming sources or whatever other sources? Looks cool and seems like some that you've wanted.

I'm a simple man. I ripped all my CDs and movies to my Synology. I play back through my Nvidia Shield and let my Denon do all of the processing. If I want to get fancy, I'll play my SACDs through my player and get DSD.

But I've never heard a difference in any of the DAC that I've tried in my Paradigm Studio or Ascend Audio Sierra setups.
 
So basically a custom DAC for streaming sources or whatever other sources? Looks cool and seems like some that you've wanted.

I'm a simple man. I ripped all my CDs and movies to my Synology. I play back through my Nvidia Shield and let my Denon do all of the processing. If I want to get fancy, I'll play my SACDs through my player and get DSD.

But I've never heard a difference in any of the DAC that I've tried in my Paradigm Studio or Ascend Audio Sierra setups.
Well my DAC is the other large silver chassis to the bottom left of my AV stack photo (it says I2S on the screen). What I built is a DDC (digital to digital converter) with streaming capabilities
 
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