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In Reply to: RE: What DACs can play 24/176 or 24/192? RME or TC Electronics posted by jpbeckaudio on October 10, 2009 at 15:46:13
When you say dac...
If you have a dac that can accept 24/192 and you pass 24/192 to it... then your good to go... but
the 'hard' part is getting the 24/192 out of your computer intact and not re/down sampled by windows or your soundcard... usb won't cut it at 24/192 yet ,,, right guys? Go to www.phasure.com and talk to PeterSt if you want an assured way of doing it. computer/hardware options
At the moment I'm only using the Fireface 800 as a "pass through" firewire to spdif to my Stello DAC. The Stello DAC only accepts 24/96 so that's what I'm limited to... I'm using the Stello as a DAC instead of the Fireface because the Stello sounds marginally better.Here's a link to a discussion about a Naim Audio DAC that's coming out that maybe is going for the extreme 384 rates or higher? but maybe not...
http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/naim-Audio-does-DXDPersonally, I'm putting my bets on a combination of PeterSt's XXHighEnd as a player and a DAC he is creating. The player is out, and with the latest version 9y-4 PeterSt has developed something he calls 'arc prediction' upsampling. At the moment it can take a 44.1 and upsample it to 176.4. The math he's developed for it is made to work best with a NonOverSampling DAC 24/192... one that he is creating and a bunch of us are chomping at the bit to try. My Stello is an OS DAC, but still knocks my socks off with his arc prediction upsampling at 88.2.
Vista64prem http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=352.msg4021#msg4021 >WAV/CUE files on HDDs via fW400;[XXHE player Q1 4 Q2 26 Q3 26 Q4 0 Q5 0 processor appt.#3;player priority low;thread priority realtime, unattended];>pci FW800>FireFace800
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