MoOde Streamer on Raspberry Pi 4 + DIY TDA1387 DAC Sound Demo (Vincent)

A pleasant surprise of the sound quality from this low cost Raspberry Pi 4 with DIY DAC (TDA1387 x 8), installed with MoOde 8.3.9 software. Very musical indeed. This video is playback of a FLAC file.

[@johnsnowlow1883]

Hi Thomas, came across your interesting video on this Raspberry 1387 Dac, could you kindly share where you got the circuit board from and the essential parts for this raspberry dac. Thanks

[@thomasdiyaudio5353]

I used standard single side prototype board for point to point soldering. The circuit is very simple hence I didn't bother getting printed circuit board. The most important component is the output capacitor which pretty much decides the sound quality. I use GAD and if you can invest more, go for Mundorf Aluminium Oil or Miflex. I buy all my components on Taobao from mainland China. If you live outside of Asia, you get buy them from Aliexpress. For north America, partsconnexion.com sells high quality capacitors at very reasonable prices. Some are actually cheaper than Taobao.
After you finish building this basic one, I highly recommend you to add tube output stage. I have a few videos on this. Tube output takes the DAC to a different level. Personally, I prefer the Lampizator output to the Audio Note one.
Have fun!

[@johnsnowlow1883]

Thanks for insights Thomas will speak with you on WeChat thanks again

[@shingwong2761]

Hi Thomas, would you please share about this diy DAC information or web site? Thank you so much!

[@thomasdiyaudio5353]

@@shingwong2761 moodeaudio.org/
On the top right corner, there is an icon on this DIY DAC. Have fun.