My fourth Volumio Streamer : Victor SL-10 Streamer

[pattdepanick]

Another Volumio project has come to an end today…It took me a few years to complete it. I am a bit of a slow guy I must admit…

I already built up a few streamers, all running volumio. The common ground for all of them is the vintage look. I always start with a vintage chassis in hich I build up the streamer. Over the years, I used accuphase, sony, luxman chassis. This latest project would be leveraging Victor wooden chassis.
I really love vintage gear. I read a lot of reviews, look at many websites, forums, on vintage gear. At one point of time, i discovered the victor Laboratory serie : The pre amp P-L10 + power amp M-L10, and the gorgeous QL-A75 turntable.

I started by getting the turntable, then I managed to get my hands on the amps…got them restored electronically and physically. The preamp wooden chassis was ok and the power amp was definitely in a bad condition. I got the power amp and pre ap wooden cases rebuilt. I therefore ended up with one original pre amp wooden chassis in a decent condition. I decided to create a streamer for it.
Part list :

• raspberry 5
• Waveshare M.2 NVME PCIE Case for Raspberry Pi 5, with 2X HDMI Ports, Support 2X 4K Video Output/Efficient Cooling, Aluminum Alloy Case, with PCIe to M.2 Board, Support PCIe Extending to M.2 Interface
• HDMI Waveshare
• DIY Steel Chassis
• DIY Frontplate (https://www.schaeffer-ag.de/en/)
• Transport XMOS
• ES9038 I2S DAC
• Power supplies from Roseaudio : 1 for the Raspberry PI, one for the transport, one for the DAC
• Toroidal transformer 60va 220v - 7v from audiophonics
• A few usb cables , one hdmi cable, some neutrik for HDMI output, RJ45, and USB.
• IEC connector

This is not a low budget project. As I said it took me several years to complete…

a view of the naked chassis…

But what does it look like in the end ???

well I wanted to keep the look and feel of the original serie. So I tried to stay as closed as possible to the original design…

The front plate for instance…

and the final result :

altogether :

I now need to tidy up the room itself build up or find a nice rack to host all my vintage gear…

I tend to stack too many systems…

next steps?
finish up a second accuphase base streamer and may be start a nexw streamer for the luxman gear that I have…

[Annolago]

Are you sure it is a good idea to use an Accuphase and just slaughter it? I am guessing there will be people out who will pay for most Accuphases as long as it is not completely toasted…

[alkjones76]

This looks fantastic. Can we have some more shots of the innards ? (and maybe details of the DAC you used?)

[pattdepanick]

the accuphase chassis I plan to use is the one of the digital tuner (satelite based) MMB T-100CS . This device cannot be used anymore… and there are among the cheapest accuphase branded items one can get to build a digital streamer out of it…in my opinion at least

[pattdepanick]

Regarding the DAC: I went for the following ES9038Q2M. Keep in mind I started the project a few years back…The dac ahs two dedicate power supplies and regulation boards from roseaudio
( a french company dedicated in building really good power supplies) .I also used a small xmos interface.

a better view of the inner parts…

[pc997]

Very nice. I am interested on the mounting technique used for the waveshare screen to the front panel.

[pattdepanick]

well…So far a quick and dirty hack using stront tape… plan is use my 3d printer to build a frame with several claws to hold the screen. the frame will be glued to the front panel…I could have designed it better to get some sticks to hold the screen too…

[Wheaten]

@pattdepanick

stront tape

Funny, I expect you mean strong, as stront in Dutch is something you would prefer not to use on a screen

[pattdepanick]

indeed strong !!

[pc997]

Thank you. I have been searching different ways of attaching screen to the front panel.