CaptBeyond wrote: > Don't mean to sound obtuse, but if the DAC only goes up to 96KHz, what's > the point of EDO?
The factory Touch firmware does not support USB DACs at all, it doesn't even see them. You need some way to recognize the USB DAC and send the data stream to the USB port. EDO is all about making that happen with as many different USB DACs and their configurations as possible. There are several things done in EDO: USB DACs use a different 24 bit format than what is used inside the Touch, EDO does the conversion. The USB driver inside the Touch firmware only supports UAC1.0 , hence only up to 96KHz, EDO provides a new driver that supports UAC2.0 in addition to UAC1.0. And while he was at it Triode added a new S/PDIF driver that supports 192 KHz. So if you are using an S/PDIF connection and you are only playing up through 96KHz, you don't need EDO. If you want to connect to a USB DAC you have to use SOMETHING, and EDO is the easiest way to do it. There are some manual hacks I've written about in other threads here, but they don't completely work with async or UAC2.0 DACs. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
