kimhav wrote:

Guess that we have to wait for some one opening the unit to take a series of inside out pictures of the extra connectivity board.

Didn't Keith do that months ago? Of course I can't find the thread now, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a VIA board...

Well, I found the thread and as well Keith has set up an external site with some few pictures and from that I can only say that the Amitech is a Via Tech board or an OEM-version of Via Tech.

Here is one shoot from his site showing parts of the motherboard:

hhm, as the Via motherboard is standard computer hardware it seems to be a wise idea to buy the same motherboard and archive it somewhere in your house - just in case ;-)


As it is a embedded windows system and the board has an IDE-connector I imaginge a very nice idea:

What about adding a CD-Rom to the system and put it in a DVD2-case? This would be a very nice base unit :-)

TWG wrote:

What about adding a CD-Rom to the system and put it in a DVD2-case? This would be a very nice base unit :-)

Great idea... even better: a DVD player/burner or a Blue Ray player, and that would replace the HDR 2 and DVD 2.

p.

Ok.we understand each other😁

TWG wrote:

hhm, as the Via motherboard is standard computer hardware it seems to be a wise idea to buy the same motherboard and archive it somewhere in your house - just in case ;-)

The VIA EPIA boards are great boards; while would say that some of the boards could offer better audio chip than the VIA Vinyl used. Even though that it's far better than much other crap integrated on many boards. The board are well built and I've had couple of boards in several system. Also here in Sweden the boards are sold with either 3 or 5 years warrant.

The audio chips in the motherboard aren't used, B&O uses their own...

Alex wrote:

The audio chips in the motherboard aren't used, B&O uses their own...

The converter is an Analog Devices AD1852

Exactly, not one built into the motherboard.

On top of this, there are very few companies actually manufacturing microchips, I expect you'd find a surprising number of high-end companies all share very very similar components. For example, Naim have been known to use Burr-Brown converts, but what really makes the difference is how it's implemented.