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This guy also built and open-sourced a universally admired headphone amplifier and DAC. His O2 amp: http://nwavguy.blogspot.bg/2011/07/o2-headphone-amp.html ht
by thucydides 11y ago
This guy also built and open-sourced a universally admired headphone amplifier and DAC.
His O2 amp: http://nwavguy.blogspot.bg/2011/07/o2-headphone-amp.html http://nwavguy.blogspot.bg/2011/07/o2-headphone-amp.html
His O2 DAC: http://nwavguy.blogspot.bg/2012/04/odac-released.html http://nwavguy.blogspot.bg/2012/04/odac-released.html
JDS Labs and others sell them commercially for those who don't feel like building them by hand.
- yoodenvranx 11y agoThere is an interesting article about him, his amp and the resulting problems due to his disappearance: http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/nwavguy-the-audio-genius-who-vanished http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/nwavguy-the-audi...
- jzelinskie 11y agoHe/She has also inspired some other manufacturers to rethink their products. IIRC Schiit was formed when some engineers thought they could improve the O2/ODAC design on their own[0]. I own an original Schiit Stack (Magnus & Modi) and would definitely recommend them. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8834176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8834176
- qb45 11y agoNot exactly, you may want to actually read the source you linked :) The company existed before O2 and M/M were independent designs.
- jzelinskie 11y agoThanks. I had read that someplace else and went digging for the link and simply assumed that was it.