JohnSwenson;579860 Wrote: > 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.
Thanks John, I appreciate your thorough reply. I haven't found a page that does a good job explaining DSIX in English yet. I think the name stands for Digital Signal Isolation Exciter. http://www.yasu-audio.com/dsix105_01.html What USB/SPDIF converter would you recommend for the Touch usb out? -- metronet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ metronet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40742 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82110 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
