Never thought that you can get so much pain and sorrow from building such a project. Maybe I may have underestimated the complexity of a streamer. People like you are really inspiring and I can say that you also motivated me to diy my setup. Congrats!!!

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing this!

That is a beautiful dac . Love your whole system, and it looks amazing

A masterpiece. Bravo.

Hello Gabster, Thank you for the detailed video. Now I will build it too. Her work is very well explained and very carefully done. Thank you very much.🙂

wow, your enthusiasm is unique and contagious. One day I will also take this in hand

Awesome, it's really beautiful, you're a genius

Truly Amazing !!! Kudos !!!

I’m glad you isolated the clock from electrical/magnetic interference and mechanical vibrations. When playing loud music definitely it helps. My turntable is heavily isolated as well. When playing at loud volumes, my turntable used to skip from the bass shaking the floor.

Looks like an amazin build.

Awesome. Always wanted to build but seeemed too tough for a weekend hobbyist

SO! At last, I did it! I just built my humble Raspberry Touchscreen streamer for KZfaq music! Yes, I know, KZfaq music isn't the most audiophile source out there, but: I DON´T CARE! I am just happy, that it works...lol. It was a long way from my PC over "audiophile Smartphone" to this raspy Volumio Device, but now it works! And I am happy! OMG... And it happened really fast the last few days. As soon as I found some of some Hans Beekhuizen videos by Coincidence, my mind was set- and I purchased the touchscreen first, then the Housing, then some cables! SO: at the beginning, I built the Raspberry Pi3B+ with a Touchscreen. And the Touchscreen was without UI and void; darkness was upon the face of the screen. And my Spirit moved upon the Touchscreen to find some Ideas. And I said, Let there be light: and there was light!

Incredible to see genius people in the world. Really appreciate your knowledge and work.

I am following this from the beginning. Wonderful DIY venture. This will be my next project hopefully. I have already build one, with Soekris DAM1021 R2R DAC board. I also have integrated rpi with the fifo pi , connect via i2s interface of the DAC. Thank you for sharing this very detail video.

I salute you, what an beautiful piece of audio gear. I like diy hifi projects a lot But unfortunately this goes way beyond my skills. I made my own high end speakers and power amp based on an older audioanalyze. I made it two seperated mono amps with much better power transformers. Sounds absolutely stunning. Maybe I will build the simple DAC in the near future. First the Roon core. I just ordered everything for it to build it myself 😅 I love your channel ❤

Thankyou so much Brother, what a beautiful DAC you have made...I would love to construct one for myself. If you live in Canada and in Montreal that would be a great help.

Hi Gabby Will it be possible to build the D11 DAC as a stand alone DAC?

That's quite impressive to say the least!! I'll follow that, because based on a rasp', if that cound become both a great sounding dac and a streamer/roon ready, for me it would be a game changer (yes roon is for me important). The cost is not on the cheap side, but based on your project, this thing is meant to be competitive against quite not cheap dac anway:)

Best DIY deck, DAC

Congratulations Gabby, what a triumph! I can only imagine the time and effort you spent in getting this to the level you wanted whilst making it look so nice in the process. Do you plan to build any more components, or is this the end of the journey?

Lots of Research and Development behind this D.A.C./Streamer 'And Problem Solving Skills' 😆 I agree Shielding is very important , Thanks Gabster glad your happy with The end results , thats what its all about !! Happy Holdidays

Hi magnificient work. I wonder if you can get a lesser quality but a still good one by avoiding supercapacitor. The whole system would be much simpler and less expensive. I think many people would feel themselves safer too by avoiding supercapacitors accepting a lesser quality result. I understand you achieved a sort of proof of concept of an ultimate dac and it is really amazing. Other things such as the extension cable and the screen may be avoided to make all the project more easy.

I burst out laughing when you showed the big transformer at 5:30 But I lost my shit when you pulled out those big honkin ultracapacitors. My girlfriend came running to see what was so funny and she just won't understand 😅 Killer work man! I was just looking at the Ian Canada UCpi and thinking it was overkill for my own application. You've given me a lot of ideas if i ever do want to go overboard myself! Bravo

Hello, All the best wishes for health and happiness as well as to your loved ones for this new year. I don't know where to start so much that I find your DAC network player extraordinary. My first question concerns the shielding you made on the Raspberry and your FifiPiQ7. Don't you fear that in the long term it will heat up a lot? My raspberry PI 4 heats up quite a bit for me... Did you find a significant musical difference between the FifoPiQ3 when you first installed it and the Q7 you have now? I have the Q3 with the same clocks as you and I already find remarkable musicality at my level... I don't bother you anymore. Congratulations again for this extraordinary job you have done. Thank you Xavier.

What could be really great, it a dedicated video on the supercap power supply used: how do they fonction, what to do and what not to do, advised cable (gauge type)....It's a topic I'm really interested in but didn"t find that much video about il in the context of power supply for audio equipment. As Ian canada is povinding quality modules, I would be really looking forward to the knowledge around those modules that might be missing in order to implement them properly. Any reply is welcome and thanks for your time and passion dedicated to sharing your view on this hobby. Best regards.

Could you please give a comment on the Z-foils compared to the handwound resistors for the transformer stage?

Great job Gabster! What's the total cost associated with the project? Debating on building one... Thank you for making your wonderful videos!!

Hello Gabi, I like to thank you for the videos. You inspired me to build my own DAC. As i want to start with the electronics first i bought the FiFo Q7, Dual Mono Dac HAT, MonitorPi, ESS controller, I/V transformer output board. If all works i will build a fancy power supply and case too. As i want better clocks i bought one Accusilicon 98MHz to compare the standard clock with the Accusilicon. Now here is my issue. With the standard clocks from the Q7 FiFo i can see in the MonitorPi both frequencies from the clocks and it's working. Now if i put the new Accusilicon in the socket i can't see the frequence in the MonitorPi and the Q7 is not working. In the manual i read that i need to bend pin 1 of the clock because of a strong pullup. I did this but with the same result. I also tried to solder a 1k resistor from EO to ground but no luck. I can mix the Accusilicon with the standard clock and i can see the frequences in the MonitorPi from the standard clock but not from the Accusilicon. I can swap the sockets but with the same result. So i assume the Q7 is fine but the new Accusilicon clock is somehow not working. I have a 20MHz Oscilloscope only, so i can't see any real output from the clock. Now i have no idea why it's not working with the new better clock from Accusilicon. Is the new Accusilicon dead? Is the Q7 somehow damaged? Do you have any idea what i can try to solve this issue? Thank you for your ideas.

It would be fun to do a hearing test at the doctor, it's a known fact it gets worse with age, esp high freq. so the hunt for "super sound" is more of a placebo effect

Hi Gabi, you mentioned that you're using pure silver hook up wires. What brand is it and what awg are you using?

do you have a link for the super capacitor balancing/protection board that you used?

Gangster, have you tested Ian Canada’sI/V stage based on the OPA861? I’m very interested to know how you think it compares to the transformer I/V stage (which I think you’ve been very happy with).

Why is this the second best ??

Hi Gabby, thank you very much for your videos. They are extremely well done and you manage to transmit your enthusiasm for this hobby of ours. I am seriously considering to try and build a dac/streamer myself based on what you did. In my case I need to use the dac also to convert the signal coming from my CD transport via an AES/EBU cable. Is it possible within the configuration of what you built? Which board would allow to do this? Thanks in advance Aming

Hi gabster. do you have some kind of schematics for you system? from the video i can’t see how you powered FifopiQ7. from what i understand you have 2 ucpure for +\- 5v on I/v board. and the other 3 are for dac right? or maybe 2 for dac and 1 for fifoq7? and…. what did you used to power on linearpi?

Great job! What's the metal chassis size??

Why did you choose a passive IV versus an active one (like Burson V5/V6) Great project, just mapping out my starting point. I currently have a Naim ND5 and Mark Levinson 526 (DAC/Pre), just want to play and see.

Hi Gabi thanks for this video I enjoyed it very much. Which Acusillicon did you have 98/90? Cheers

hi. i’m trying to build similar project using opa861 instead of I/v transformers. Now i’m building power section and i have 2 alternatives: 1- going with ultracapacitors plus linearpi for raspberry as you did 2-going with linearpi dual with UcConditioners for opa861 and purePi for raspberry, dac and fifoQ7 second way is (i think less expensive) what do you suggest gabster? thank you so much!

wonderful job! can you share a link for that display? thanks

Wow! very nicely made. Can you tell me roughly what all this cost?

Very pretty build! - You didn't encounter any noise issues with the unshielded DSI-cable for the display? That is the thing i would expect to generate a lot of noise.

Thanks for this video. Can you share link of The display? I need one that i can mount in The sa e way like yours (on wood chassis with display edges outside)

Hello Gabster. Do you think there will be a big difference in sound quality with Ian Dual Mono Dac powered by one 3.3V ucpure and three independent ucpure for dac?

Hi Gaby...i have the same problem with the ess controller...did you connect the delay timer so that the ess controller part boots later or so that the raspi area has a delay? also the four 3.3 volts for the Dual Mono Dac HAT and fifo should start with a slight delay ?

Very impressed of your build,one question.You have both 5v and 3,3 to fifopi,what do you use 5v for?

Hi Gabster, I have seen, that you also have a Denafrips Terminator DAC. Did you compare those two DACs using the same Streamer? Would you mind sharing your thoughts and impressions about this?

which is the best?

Cmon I didn't expect you to be promoting dac's,

Recall from Maxwell for PN BCAP0325 P270 S17, has a plating fail. The date codes that are affected by this recall is 2239 and 2149.

I have a couple of questions if you can answer? I assume after you built this unit you are no longer using the streamer you built. Is that streamer available for sale? Also is it possible to add an optical network connection to this dac/streamer? Thanks, Paul

hi…. can you share a link for that two metal boxes used to shield the station pi? thanks!

Gabster, have you compared Ian Canada’s OPA861 I/V stage to the transformer-based I/V stage?

Wouldn't it be better to use 2, 12v batteries that work interchangeably instead of capacitors? Saludos

This build is truly inspiring! I have two questions though about something you brought up but never explained further: 1. How was the the test results for this DAC? Did it show good linearity? Low distortion? It would be nice to se a separate video with measurements. 2. What resistors did you end up using with the Ivan I/V?

Gabster, I was just wondering if you ever tested the Ian Canada Transformer I/V in your build? Do you have any comments about it?

@Gabster I am building my own streamer based on Ian's designs. Is your aluminum chassis custom or is it an off the shelf piece from Hammond? I am trying to locate one and yours would be near my requirements.

I wonder if you can make streamer only using the best parts and how much its going to cost Best Regards Mariusz

Sir what are those capacitors for? Sorry you didn't explain actually what each part or components are for

Are you selling this ?

UltraCapacitors 3V 3000 uf ---> should be 3V 3400F Not uF a huge difference.

Gabby, would you build to sell any of your units? I would be interested.

How about a less expensive alternative for beginner DIYers? :)

Which OS you are using on PI ?

How can i get one of these streamers from you ?

My only question is the raspberry pi enclosure and all the elements around will not suffer from heat ? Everything there generate heat ! Are you not having issue with heat?

Lol

too many electronic components. Just use HRT music streamer, change opamp to MUSES02, add proper RCA connectors, power streamer with separate 5V battery PSU and with less than a 300 $ that combination beat this RPi garbage