Phileas;427847 Wrote: > Hi > > I'm using something called USB Soundbox: > http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=34128 > which is an external sound card with an optical digital out. > I'm using Softsqueeze to play internet radio & FLAC files with the > volume set to 100%. > > Does anyone know how (if at all) the digits will be altered by the time > they get to my external DAC? I.e., is this system likely to be "bit > transparent"? > I have this USB soundbox too, I can verify that it only supports 48 kHz sampling rate and 16 bit natively, which means that playing a 44.1 kHz and any other than 48 kHz stream will be resampled by this device to 48 kHz. So no bitperfect playing for 44.1 kHz music!
I tested it with DTS and AC3 5.1 files 44.1 and 48 kHz files with AC3filter. But it's a very cheap little USB 1.1 to Optical SPDIF converter anyway. -- batka ------------------------------------------------------------------------ batka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12908 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63913 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
