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They Don’t Call it Hardware for Nothing

Sometimes you blog because you’ve accomplished something. Sometimes you blog because you just want to salvage something from failure. Today I’m going to do both! Yes, hardware is involved.

Building An Alien

This weekend, Peter and I built this:

It’s an Alien DAC; a USB to analogue audio converter that has a Burr-Brown PCM2702 chip at its heart.

I’ve been listening to it a bit today and am very impressed with the quality. In fact, to my ears it sounds even better than the DAC built into my Corda [...]