JJZolx wrote: > Meaning what, exactly? Limits to speed, dropouts, poor sound quality, or > something else?
The OP asked about why ordinary low cost computers not used for hires playaback using an attached DAC and wondered whether it was the software. My answer was to indicate that more important was the hardware and supplied s/w (not the player s/w) on playback. Example how playback through a DAC can be affected by - not enough current through a USB connection - many ARM (and possibly x86) based system which implement USB in a SoC (or in a similar cost reduced manner) have problem with some USB DACS and so hubs may be necessary. - some supplied s/w/ (such as USB driver) USB can result in clicks and dropouts. - for i2s DAC - it may be hard to get the siga;l from the syustem and also to build a driver for a I2S DAC - for spdif optical interfaces - hires usually means more than 48k and often supplied driver only support up to 48k. Sometimes the spdif hardware may also be a lower spec and not handle hires well. The advice to a non technical person would be to choose hardware which has a community of user with already working audio in a similar manner/setup rather than picking a low costs computer from a website based on h/w specification and price and expecting that everything will work OK just by plugging in a DAC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101594 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
