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0 pointsboojums5y ago0 comments

Do you have any information on your digial audio interface you can share? Seems like an interesting project.

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jeffbee5y ago· 2 in thread

Not that exciting really. I built an instrument that could measure very small levels of harmonic distortion induced by converter phase noise. Then, being so equipped, I made a converter with immeasurable phase noise. The instrumentation was the exciting part, in all honesty. $1000 off-the-shelf pro converters now exceed its performance.

boojumsOP5y ago

I feel like "Not that exciting really" is underselling it given that your hobby project is matching current $1000 pro equipment, but that could just be my own ignorance with the subject matter.

jeffbee5y ago

It's nice of you to say so. That's the nature of DIY. A hobbyist has some aesthetic or objective performance goals, but they have no economic goals, so the range of things that hobbyists build greatly exceeds the range of commercially available equipment.

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