DIY AK4497EQ HiRez DAC

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DIY AK4497EQ HiRez DAC
« on: 9 Nov 2017, 10:59 pm »
Got one of the AK4497EQ DAC boards from Ebay.  Using the new XMOS U208 based USB to I2S Bus board I already have to drive the PCM and DSD sides for use with my headphone rig.  The USB driver is on a link from the Ebay page.

The first trial is checking DAC DC offset and if very low bypass the 2 - 100uF AC coupling caps at the output of the DAC chip feeding the filters.  Will probably use a 49720 dual opamp for the output filter and drive stage if the offset is low.

The DAC board I have uses balanced outputs, so easy to try with a balanced drive amp to the headphones.