metronet;579796 Wrote: > Hi John, do you happen to have a list of the asynchronous USB to spdif > converter that would work with the Touch, like the Musiland 01 USD? > > Also, what do you think of DSIX spdif in comparison to asynchronous USB > to spdif in terms of performance? for instance from a Touch to an > Accuphase D/A converter.
Both the Musiland 01 USD and the M2Tech will NOT work with the Touch. They require a custom driver of which only Mac or Windows versions exist. The Touch runs linux on an ARM processor so the existing drivers will not work. You HAVE to use a device that will work with a generic driver, NOT its own custom driver. I'm not up on DSIX, I've seen two very different things on the net under that name, I'm not sure what you are referring to. One looks like a simple waveform reshaper and a transformer, the other has an oscillator and says something about a PLL, I have not been able to find any details about whats actually going on inside of this. I've written hundreds of pages on S/PDIF before, I'm not really up to that all over again. The upshot is that it is HIGHLY variable. Almost no devices actually really get the spec right so you are almost always dealing with a gamble as to what is going to work the best. In real life its all about which imperfection of transmitter matches the imperfections of the receiver the best. Which comes down to its impossible to make generalizations. Try a bunch of stuff and use the one that sounds the best. Just because something works best for someone else, its highly unlikely its going to be the best for you unless you have exactly the same gear. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82110 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
