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by nyanpasu64 20 days ago
> I'm not sure where to source straddle-mount VGA connectors. Alibaba has a product listing that describes the same part found in my DAC, but has no pictures of the actual product.

> I also found straddle-mount VGA to break off the board easily

> All of this is possible... but it's a lot of work for an incremental upgrade that doesn't resolve the jitter and audio dropout problems. Compare this to the HDMI2SCART which required more manufacturing effort, but fulfilled a previously unmet use case; even then the author stopped selling them himself because he couldn't find a better source for chips.