Triode wrote: > I actually think that for audiophile playback this is the way to go. We > should leave the audio engineering to an external usb based dac and keep > the streamer to a low power linux platform which runs squeezeplay (or > cut down version of it or something similar...) This with LMS + a > separate control app would keep the power of LMS + the audiophile > capabilities of high bitrate and external dac support. As we see with > Sonos - other streamers don't put the effort into crystal dual clocks > for driving spdif outs at low jitter for all audio rate - this requires > dedicated hardware. We should perhaps leave this to the dac > manufactures and just looks to a streamer which has a usbout.
As you well know the fun part is getting the small "embedded" linux with the proper ALSA so it can properly run UAC2 async DACs. Fortunately Time itself will tend to fix that. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96205 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
