IAN CANADA CARDS

Hi Oro,
Thank you but in fact I have already known the gabster youtube site for some time and in fact I followed his videos and I assembled a Streamer/Dac that I am satisfied with. My question was, instead, if any forum member had had experience and what they thought about it acoustically.

Alessandro

Hi Melm,

I have assembled a Raspberry PI4B based Streamer/Dac composed of the following IAN CANADA boards:
1. PurePi II (Ultracapacitor Power Supply + LifePo049
2. Raspberry PI4B
3. ShieldPi Pro
4. Flagship Re-Clocker FifoPi Q7 II with the new FemtoMck XO clocks
5. ES9038Q2M Dual Mono II DAC Hat
6. MonitorPi Pro

After several tests I found the correct settings but I think further refinements are necessary. What I am listening to both with DSD files (played in direct mode up to 128), both with DXD files and with Flac Music both from files and in HiRes Qobuz seems to me to have obtained a high degree of acoustic quality. Certainly in my system there is an excellent analog chain (SME TT - SME Arm - Lyra Titan - Benz Micro LP etc.) which obviously sounds better but as far as digital is concerned I am extremely satisfied. Surely the next upgrade will be to insert a IAN CANADA UcConditioner MkII/Pro 3.3V to further improve the power supply of Re-Clocker and ES9038 DAC. What I learned the power supply is fundamental. And anyway thanks for your experience. Kind regards.

Alessandro

@melm

Hi Melm,

I see that you have also assembled a nice digital system. I am now also convinced that Ian Canada products are excellent. You say they are expensive but in reality, considering the performance and build quality, they are priced right. Consider that if you bought a finished system of that performance it would cost at least 4 or 5 times more expensive. Yes, the pile certainly cannot be considered beautiful but for me it has its charm. Then you did it and this is a great satisfaction.

I will certainly continue to prefer vinyl which I find more complete and exciting.

See you soon and kind regards.

Alessandro