Hi again, Sorry not to have got back on the previous question.
Things have moved on now to a new question. I received my new SMSL Sanskrit Pro B DAC just before the weekend and the sound quality has certainly improved from the builtin DAC in my surround receiver. I can now play 192KHz flac files and there is a very noticable improvement in overall space and depth to the sound. Everything sounds more relaxed and natural. My daughter described it as the sound being 3 dimensional, as opposed to 2 at lower frequencies. However, the main reason I bought the DAC was to be able to play DSD streams natively, and this is still not possible. Googling a bit around the Linux snd_usb module I see that quite a lot of work has been done around DSD, post 2.6.26 (which is the version of the kernels that are available). I currently have (and have tried) the Triode kernel updater default USB kernel as well as test kernels 11 and 12 (with "Tenor" workarounds). None of which will give me any meaningful sound from a DSD stream (DFF/DSF). My current best guess is that it would need some kernel patching to make it work. I think there may be some backports with extra DSD stuff for the snd_usb module, but I would need to recompile the module (hopefully it is compiled as a module on the touch and is not built-in). I'm guessing at the very least I'd need the same version of the C compiler and the kernel source tree and headers that were used for the kernel that I'm running now. Does anyone have any experience at all in patching the kernel on the touch? If so I'd be very glad to hear from you. BR. --Marius-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learnincurve's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64807 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
