Ess hump solution?

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Thank you very much for the update, you and your team members are excellent engineers, I believe you will find a final solution one day.

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Thank you for this. I could not help but notice that the second graph was taken at -40dBFS, and the distortion level appears to be below -115dB, which is great. However, according to the first graph, the IMD distortion does not appear to be at its worst at -40dBFS. The worst case scenario is around -30dBFS. Would it be possible to have the second graph displayed at -30dBFS?

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Is there any advancing on this issue ?

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No update, I almost give up and will buy something else.

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No an easy thing, as it’s common issue of the ESS DAC chipset, and almost all the ESS based DAC with same issue for a few years.

@Edison still obsessed with solving it, and just discussed another professional engineer for a solution, but was no luck.

We will keep an eye on it.

Good day!

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

Do you plan on fix it on a new revision ?

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

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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 ?

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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

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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?

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Hi Gouwa ,

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

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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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