2 Mar
2006
2 Mar
'06
12:07 p.m.
So Maluvia says:
If you can convince a Crystal Semiconductor wholesaler that they should
sell an engineering eval. unit to you, then that's where. I don't know
who the industrial distributors might be for your region, though. You can
try this for other companies as well.
I built some
D/As out of a Crystal 24-bit evaluation board that blew the
socks off an equivalent Apogee -- with a good clean power supply and
clock. For about $200 US!
Wow - that's really encouraging!
(BTW, where does one come by something like a Crystal evaluation board?) >For A/D, I found that a 20-bit Burr-Brown chip
>*sounded* better than the Apogees at 44.1/48k and 24-bit, though most of
>that was still the input filtering.
Caveat: yes -- that did include a careful and good word-clock. I agree
with all comments about jitter _at the convertor_ I've seen so far; but
most decent convertors won't mangle an external clock, and you can add a
spendy stable clock later if you like -- just add next year's tax-refund
as well!
Cheers,
Phil M
--
Dept. of Mathematics, 342 Machray Hall
U. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
Office: 446 Machray Hall, 204-474-6470
http://www.rephil.org/ phil at rephil dot org