DIY SRC

GroupDIY Audio Forum

Help Support GroupDIY Audio Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Joined
Feb 5, 2005
Messages
5
Location
Denmark
Hi all,

Does anybody in here have any schematics for an SRC?
I've heard that it should be fairly easy to build a high quality one?

Best Regards
Henrik
 
Should be available in the Crystal Semiconductor data sheets.

Be warned that this sort of voodoo is easy on the surface, but very difficult to do right.

You'll need a clock source or-if you want a professional one- you'll need to extract a clock source from an incoming reference that will 'back-clock' your output (analogous to 'Genlocking' in Video operations) then you'll need an AES/SDIPF decoder, an AES/SPDIF encoder, the Sample Rate Converter ship itself, some means of instructing it as to what sample rate it is to outut to (most should be able to identify the incoming rate automatically).

The above is for ASRC (asynchronous sample rate conversion). If you want the synchronous variant (sometimes not useable: for example bringing 'wild' (unreferenced) digital source -a domestic CD player is a useable example- into a master referenced setup. The Synchronous variant is "easier" insofar as you divide or multiply the incoming clock by a fixed factor, and the reference is derived from the input.

Whoever said it's easy to build probably meant that you can just use the crystal semiconductor data sheets and about three of their chips together with some supporting/buffering/clocking circuitry.

Failing that, whoever told you it's "easy" either has some new definition of the word easy which I'm not familiar with, or they just need a slap! :twisted:

Keith
 
He he... I'll give him a good slap and then say it's from you Steve :shock:

Thanks for your answers!
The SRC has to clock up to an external source and be able to take AES/EBU signals.

You are probalby right... looks easy on the paper but another thing is how it will work in practice.

Best Regards
 

Latest posts

Back
Top