JohnW
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I think someone beat you to it with the name "Fusion DAC" John...
http://www.jolida.com/product/fusion-dac-transport
I designed a DAC called "Fusion" for Tube Technology back in 1997 or so...
I think someone beat you to it with the name "Fusion DAC" John...
http://www.jolida.com/product/fusion-dac-transport
John, a question about the original M-DAC. I read some pages back in this thread that you mentioned about the caps issue. Did you find the root cause of these caps failing? Is it a case of poor quality caps used or do these caps fail due to another (external?) cause?
Hi JohnW,
Now with the partership with miniDSP do you think (maybe as a future upgrade) that hdmi will the possible?
How do you plan now to accomodate the slave units? Will they require a fwc each slave?
Can you please share the plans for the slaves now as things are changing?
Thanks
I was hoping to pick the MDAC2+VFETS up in the Czech Republic.
John would i2s offer any advantages over USB?
Hi John
There are probably a few that might like to know about this capability of HDMI input/output with miniDSP in the mix.
miniDSP have got HDMI on their Products so they have Licenses - these could prove to be most useful in setting up a FULLY LOADED REFERENCE HOME THEATER device with Slaves now!
Even change the Slot Loader for a Bluray/SACD transport? - these Drives OEM cannot be that much more than CD and oh so much more flexible with Bluray Audio coming in too.
You did mention the Digital Interface could be upgraded with our FWC DACs, so hopefully that means the OEM Optical Drive interface could be interchangeable, or at least have the capability of upgrading later?
Many thanks
Paul
PS. To make our DACs special, a John Westlake 'made with love' insignia would be terrific ;-)
This is a good idea, but have all of the first 200 places gone?
I have held off paying £400 via the Lakewest website, because I don't know the state of the game at the moment.
I had planned to wait until the TDAC was on the horizon. However, I would now like to join the Fusion DAC project if possible.
The Fusion DAC in a FWC, with a possible CD player and other features including maybe phono inputs, is a really attractive proposition.
John, are you likely to open a new thread asking for backers for the FWC Fusion DAC? (I hope I've got all the audio terminology right here). I met you and Renata when you demoed the Audiolab CDQ in London a few years ago.
Jack
Nobody has yet jumped in on this one. Maybe I misunderstood something, but I thought that the FWC would be styled to match the VFET mockup pictures which John showed a while back, i.e. bright polished Al. This was part of the dealbreaker for me.
Any comments/corrections?
Bob
I presume you asked about putting the Pi in the FWC because the i2s connection is meant to be less than 3cm?
I understand you use the GPIO pins to get the i2s out of the Pi, but can you point me to something that will tell me how to do that exactly. Cheers
Bob,
The VFET amps where NEVER going to be bright polished!!! that sounds rather ghastly!
We will "Ice blast" the surface to give a texture finish like the Uni-body Apple products, anodized Black or silver....
The VFET amplifiers will match the Fusion DAC (but taller and with a Plasma display bargraph rather then the Fusions touch screen) - below is the basic ID design of the FWC (subject to working on fine details):-
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86116171/Fusion DAC.png
The front panel is Milled from 15cm Aluminum sheets - and the display area is an IPS colour touch screen.
Shown is the CD slot loader version, obviously no slot on the non CD versions.
Its going to be a REALLY Ground breaking stomping product
To be quite honest, I'm quite interested in trying the DSP room / speaker correction as it can be performed in full 56 bit mathematical precision - with this 56 bits being feed directly into the FPGA modulator thus maintaining as much mathematical precision as possible reducing DSP rounding errors.
I expect to "loose" about 10 - 20 due to the shift to the FWC,
Absolutely love that design John.
For my music source it will still be flac, but it would be nice to have a disc spinner on the occasion I havent got round to ripping. I guess there wouldn't be the capability to use the drive to rip cds ?
As for AV its got to be BR, hopefully with the 2 MDAC2 Slaves I'm still looking for a new house, current one looks like its sold (in one day!!). Fingers crossed I can have a dedicated room purely for music and film. If not I just can't imagine SWMBO (yes a reconciliation) agreeing to a 5.1 ML setup. If this is the case I'm still not 100% sure whether to go the "whole hog" with the slaves for AV as mentioned. I'm even considering a cabin/shed, if the garden size and funds permit. A few I've seen have cellars for a proper man cave retreat.
Hope China treats you well , cheers.
I watch films using a projector and a pretty big screen which drops down from the ceiling between my stereo speakers. It's terrific and I don't feel I'm missing anything by not having rear speakers.
If it can be add without delaying the project we will - but either way the Fusion DAC will have "optional" HDMI inputs which will allow multichannel support via the Fusion Master / Slave units or pure DSD extraction from compatible SACD players.
I'm very happy for this as we will now not need to develop a custom extraction card to be retrofitted to DVD / SACD / BR players
Maybe those who currently have 'fusioned' MDACs and are going to have FWC could 'swap' for those who can only live with the original form factor.
Reducing their disappointment ?
Maybe those who currently have 'fusioned' MDACs and are going to have FWC could 'swap' for those who can only live with the original form factor.
Reducing their disappointment ?