{"id":3452,"date":"2014-05-17T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T13:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2014-05-17T14:25:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T13:25:18","slug":"starlight-discrete-dac-more-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2014\/05\/17\/starlight-discrete-dac-more-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlight Discrete DAC: more progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I used a aluminium bar structure to hold both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lundahl.se\/pdf\/7903.pdf\">LL7903<\/a>\u00a0transformers and the\u00a0Russian\u00a0PIO output capacitors. The LL7903 will be wired in 4:1 and the capacitor will prevent the DC current from the DAC to shunt to ground. Also used some silicon rubber to protect the mu-metal can of the LL7903:<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140517-141633.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140517-141633.jpg?resize=612%2C551\" alt=\"20140517-141633.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"551\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are the DAC boards mounted on a PTFE board with a set of copper strips that will be used to solder 10 x 100\u03bcF SMD low ESR capacitors to improve decoupling of DC rails:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140517-141646.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140517-141646.jpg?resize=615%2C311\" alt=\"20140517-141646.jpg\" width=\"615\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140517-141657.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140517-141657.jpg?resize=615%2C463\" alt=\"20140517-141657.jpg\" width=\"615\" height=\"463\" \/><\/a>I think all fits in the box I&#8217;m planning to use \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I used a aluminium bar structure to hold both LL7903\u00a0transformers and the\u00a0Russian\u00a0PIO output capacitors. The LL7903 will be wired in 4:1 and the capacitor will prevent the DC current from the DAC to shunt to ground. Also used some silicon rubber to protect the mu-metal can of the LL7903: &nbsp; Here are the DAC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2014\/05\/17\/starlight-discrete-dac-more-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starlight Discrete DAC: more progress&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[507,5],"tags":[568,603,538,569,604],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-starlight-cd-player","category-valves","tag-dac","tag-discrete-dac","tag-ll7903","tag-starlight","tag-starlight-dac"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2r2tK-TG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}