CD Player as a DAC

New Version 2025 compatible with TDA5708 en TDA8808

 

I designed a small SAA7220 adapter board,  it adds a coax digital input on a SAA7220 Chipset CD-player, so it can used as a DAC when the cd player is not playing . When the CD player is started the spdif input is switch off and the cd player is working as normal.The spdif interface is based on a WM8804. and can be used at  32 , 44.1 and 48 kHz.

Idea started on MFBfreak.com

A small Demo using Raspberry PI with Moodeaudio  – demo_cd_dac

Version 2025 Compatible with TDA8808/8809 Video 1 – Video 2

Proof of Concept.

Design a prototype  circuitboard…

 

 

 

 

Some Measurements Digital input

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Digital input in CD 650

• Digital input in CD 472

 

• En CD 471

In a CD 670

Just enough room

• In a CD 880 photo by Paolo

 

• Here in a Cambridge CD 3

 

Nieuwe Versie ietsje smaller

 

CD as a DAC in Marantz CD85 , with NOS switch

 

• In a Marantz CD85

 

Here in a CD94  , with little modification 

New production run

Tested TCXO vs X-tal CD as a DAC board…

 

CD as DAC in a Grundig CD 8200 , and customer added USB to SP/dif input

In Naim CD 3

Version 5 Compatible with TDA5708 and TDA8808 Chip