Ess hump solution?

So for people that bought a unit there will be no fix ?

Do you plan on fix it on a new revision ?

Any reply team ? I have a tone board and no solution to the hump

Hi Gouwa

many dacs based on ess sabre IC do not have the hump. Ess9018 also do not show this hump. So my question is , will you fix this issue for current owners of the tone board ? If not , do you plan on a new board revision that has this issue fixed ?

in a blind abx test bench, how often will you identify which is which between a device with the disto hump and one without it just with your ears and your brain ?

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Engineer that distributes esssabre IC is saying that its very easy to hear the sound difference between units with hump and without hump

We are working on the Hump issues, and we have a solution now(hope it’s right way), we will take a trial in the new engineer prototype and update here.

Good day!

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@Gouwa will this be a firmware change or the existing tone board hw need to be change?

Hi Gouwa ,

can you tell us if issue is fixed for our boards ? Or only for new revision …?

I want to see spectrum analysis of these two test tones (at different level would be better)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ikONePQwsxNCQ5WTufwRw0qXNloll9DP

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Hi Kean & tongkiat:
The hump issue need to be fixed on new revision KTB due to hardware changing is required.

Will keep updating here.

Good day!

Thank you for keep working on this issue. I think I will buy one new version or may wait for the balanced version. Good job!

The issue won’t be fixed in the new batch of tone boards, right?
I’m about to buy one and I don’t know if I should just go ahead or wait for new revision, can you give me more info about that?
Thank you!

Yep, the new batch Tone Board is still same with previous batch :slight_smile:

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There’s already a planned date for the new model?

Anyway I really like this project and the love that you put in it! This is what made me choose khadas over other dacs :slight_smile:

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Should be another 3 months or so, as we plan to launch together with the case designed for the Tone Board.

Good day!

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Looking forward to the version.

This will be release together with the Balance out ?

Thank you Gouwa for your kind reply, 3 months is not too much so I guess I could happily wait and buy the new version, I will be more than happy to support your project if you do crowd funding or preorder!

Yep, but with a “Magic” way :rofl:

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Yep, planning

thanks for support!

Looking forward to the coming release.

Hoping it come out tomorrow :slight_smile: