Squeezemenicely wrote: > > I own a Schiit Bifrost Dac (without usb) and love it, meanwhile it is > connected to my Touch via optical. > > Schiit is now offering a new USB board as an upgrade: > Quote from their website > "Gen 2 USB Upgrade > For Bifrost and Gungnir > > This new USB input card for Bifrost and Gungnir improves USB performance > across the board, and allows you to enjoy music encoded in 24/176.4. > Featuring the C-Media CM6631A receiver and additional isolation and > filtering, the Gen 2 USB input outperforms external USB-SPDIF converters > that cost several times as much."
Triode, will probably comment. I've got the CM6631A on my list of chipsets to avoid with Linux USB. But unlike others (eg. Tenor) where I made notes, nothing else. So that could mean it didn't work at all, or had minor issues. Do you know if anyone is using the EDO applet with the Touch and a USB DAC with this chipset? Squeezemenicely wrote: > > Wandboard is on my wishlist and would Squeezelite run better on it, > better usb out? > > Or is the toslink out on wandboard already good enough? Jitter aside, you may (or may not) have read the discussion on the R3 thread, where we actually posted the % frequency inaccuracies due to using the USB clock for clocking the data out of the TOSLINK optical. At present, it is probably worse (on paper) than from the Touch. I had a quick look at the code and figured it was going to be reasonably simple to set the parent clock for the spdif to be the programmable pll4 audio clock, but no further. Triode (Adrian) may actually be working on this. I don't know. But as it stands at the moment, using the TOSLINK out of the default WB carrier board is probably of lower quality then the Touch. And then, there is the issue of the incorrect wiring to the TOSLINK port (reversed connections for signal and power) on the board, that means without DIY modification, it is a bit hit and miss whether any specific DAC will work as it is. Can you do a little research yourself? Are people successfully using USB DAC's with the CM6631A under Linux? Or wait for Triode to jump in and hopefully give you a better answer than I can. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98190 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
