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RE: Upgrading a Dac 2.1 to 3.1

Posted by Bones13 (A) on January 31, 2012 at 10:06:53

In Reply to: Upgrading a Dac 2.1 to 3.1 posted by davidspeed@shaw.ca on January 19, 2011 at 17:43:20:

I ordered my 4.1 without the USB card. Still building my kit, so things still can change. Currently I am going to mount the one RCA SPDIF, and either XLR or BNC for the second input. I have both jacks, just have not been able to commit to one or the other.

On my office system I have a Halide Bridge/PSA DLIII unit which will be replaced by my current W4S DAC2, freeing the Halide Bridge for the 4.1 to start with.

I have planned to leave the RCA SPDIF open for input from my CD player, using either the XLR or BNC for a USB-SPDIF converter, or even building a Windows based file player with Lynx Card XLR out, but there are just about as many adapters there. Using a MacMini + firewire external drive and the Halide Bridge into the RCA jack seems like a clean and neat solution. Asynch, and no fussing above 96k, which the 4.1 won't see anyway.

There seems to be fierce dogfighting in the USB-SPDIF converter arena currently, driving up features, and driving down the pricing. For those of us that don't need stratospheric sample rates, many of the "new" features are not worth paying for currently. Good clocks, clean power...

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