elite1967 wrote: > Ah. That's a shame! > How can we create such a list? > It would be very helpful for those who need to buy a DAC in order to > attach it to the SBT. > > Maybe a Google doc? > Or an update in the first post?
Good idea ,you probably have read the whole of this tread or entice the others to post on your new tread and also disclose thier settings and which kernel if such alterations was necessary . However this mostly ( only imo ) matters for DAC's with who only has USB inputs . There are other factors that matters if a DAC is good DAC or not, which kind of input it has is just one detail to consider in the whole picture .consider that a good spdiff implementation is transparent to the listeners and also consider that the USB or any other inputs is not automatically the best choice DAC design skills vary, and actually on many designs the USB is a second rate computer input not the asynchronous implementation you want here. This also makes me wonder about brands like ayre that implements a proprietary async protocol with proprietary drivers ? And exclude normal inputs from some of thier DAC models ?? Wtf . Marketing smoke and mirrors, they also declare the traditional inputs as barely usable bla bla ? I see a use case for small USB only DAC ,for example to a laptop and you use it as second system or a home studio . But for a main DAC into a hifi system to offer only one input you gotta be kidding me !? Do they want us to buy even more boxes :) I don't subscribe to the beliefs that good audio equipment must be void of any creature comforts or user friendly functionality to be "pure" and considerable for inclusion in an audiophile system . So in this list of DAC we must also at least try to establish if the USB implementation is worthwhile, this is very hard to do but we can try . My piont is that just because the Touch can use an USB output this is not a major game changer that has to skew the whole process of DAC selection it simply makes the list of possible DAC's bigger as it includes some of the USB only designs . This is putting the cart in front of the horse . This is a similar hang up to some people's desire to use only balanced equipment and in the process exclude perfectly good unbalanced solutions ( now there is a can of worms on how balanced is implemented in some designs ). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
