Wishing to get myself a dedicated, headless, high quality PC based audio player i found myself looking at a couple of options.
1) Build a low powered dedicated PC with high grade components like USB DACs etc.
Good investment, but can be very costly
2) Get my hands on a 1st gen Apple TV and upgrade the HDD as well as replace the Wi-Fi card with a Video Decoder chip. Costs money but a lot cheaper than a dedicated pc.
3) Further mod my original Xbox. Costs next to nothing
Whilst Id love to build a pc, Im not particularly flushed with cash atm. As such Im tossing up between options 2 and 3.
After some research I found out that the Xbox uses a Wolfson WM9709 DAC chip. This is good because its a quality chip, but not so good as it upscales everything to 48kHz due to the ability of the Xbox to double as a DVD player. This would distort the majority of my 44.1kHz cd based FLAC collection. That said, Im currently looking into getting the best possible signal out of my trusty original Xbox. I found the spec sheet for said chip here:
http://pdf.datasheet...on/mXyzqyyr.pdfPage 2 gives us the pin-out of the chip with the L/R channels located on pins 17 & 18.
My Idea is to take the audio lines straight from here to dedicated permanent RCA jacks Ill be attaching to the rear I/O of my Xbox. This is in order to bypass any caps or anything of the like in-between the DAC chip and the stock AV plug, in order to get the best sound possible. Said signal will run directly through RCA to my amp and then onto my speakers.
Posting here to see if theres any problems with my logic so far, or if theres any tips people could offer.
Ive already slimbox-modded my Xbox and its running a 500GB HDD. Im yet to add an internal Wi-Fi adapter so that I can control the Xbox from my Phone using the remote app, and I also plan on upgrading the cooling capabilities and adding some custom feet to give it more of a hifi look
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Topic: Xbox Line Out Mod (Read 820 times)