Hi, I'm new to these forums but have really learned a lot from them. Triode your applet works for peachtree idac although the dac uses an adaptive usb 1.0 and so sounds better using the coax from the sbt. Very easy to use and I appreciate all the effort you put into it.
I have used some of soundcheck's suggestions (quite helpful) and your edo applet and could definitely notice a significant improvement in SQ. Thank you both. I had an idea to greatly reduce the jitter of an sbt that entails modifying your applet ( or maybe it doesn't?). This might not make any sense so please feel free to throw darts or whatever at this idea. In my situation and possibly others here, the sbt is not close to the pc/nas setup. Perhaps 20 or 30 ft. I just run a long cat 6A eithernet cable (thanks soundcheck--it does make a difference although I can't believe I am saying that) from my pc to the sbt. Then I could go to the dac via either usb or coax which is a short 1m cable. Given the jitter in the sbt is good but perhaps not as good as we all might like I was wondering if the following idea is feasible: Could you use the usb output of the sbt (using some version of the edo applet) to go to a low cost usb to spdif box that would clean it up significantly and avoid making any hardware mods to the sbt (thereby avoiding violating the logitech warranty). The output of the spdif box goes into the coax input of the dac but now the jitter of the sbt has been greatly reduced (hopefully) and no one has to mess with hacking into the hardware innards of the sbt. Although if that is your thing then more power to you. I read from triode and John Swenson's excellent and well thought out explanations that the edo applet may not be able to do this currently because it needs to query the dac to help set up the usb output channel in the sbt. I suppose a usb to spdif box in between is going to make that impossible. However, maybe a simpler usb 1.0 pass through version (or applet option) of the edo code would work to accomplish this? An added bonus is that this would make the edo code even more versatile since their would not need to be a dac query. Thus, the concern about making it work with various dac brands would be avoided thereby creating an even larger user base for this mod. Although it does increase the cost to buy a usb to spdif box. Or maybe I have no idea what I am talking about (quite possible). A question one might ask here is why not go directly from the pc to the dac via usb? I have tried it and I can tell you that long usb cables are not OK for transmitting high quality audio. Many dac mfr's warned me against it and they were completely correct. The sound degradation was obvious and not pretty. On the other hand ethernet is adept at traveling long distances and does possess transformer isolation at its receiver. So what I am attempting to do is transmit to the sbt as cleanly as possible over longer distances using ethernet and then reducing the sbt jitter with a usb to spdif box (with short 1m usb cable) and then go to the dac via spdif coax (again short cable). Would appreciate any comments, etc. on this idea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jksbt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=55836 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
