I think the V-Dac 1st gen. is another no-go with usb (alsa only?) I just got the cheapest C-media audio dongle I could find and it worked immediately without any issue. The C-media thing is dongle to support 6 channels, so it is USB 2.0 when the V-Dac mk. 1 is USB 1.1. It can handle 16/48, like the V-Dac.
My PC engines alix is now running SBS (with web GUI), sox + flac (convert.conf tweaked a bit), and squeezelite in sync with an SB3, playing 24/96. The machine uses wifi, the internal data HDD is 750Gb. It draws a steady 11Wh on my kill-a-watt (<5 for the board, >5 for the HDD, seems plausible.) 11Wh when idle is way too much, I need to reinstate some power saving settings and see if it can go down to 5W by putting the HDD to sleep. Kernel tick is set to 1kHz, fully preemptible, I removed the tickless option since my kill-a-watt didn't show it made any difference. I think synch is better with this 1kHz kernel compared to the other end of the spectrum I also tried (100Hz, non-preemptible, tickless.) And when I mean it's better: it is *super* stable (and yes, I use crossfade ) I am under the impression there is a bit more echo than with 2 SB3s in sync (I use 2 stereos, a few meters apart), but I wasn't in a position to look at fine settings like audio delay until now. And this is so faint I think it calls for blind testing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046
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