What do you use for a dac?

On December 23, 2014 9:52:08 AM EST, mh <mhe...@member.fsf.org> wrote:
>On 12/23/2014 09:12 AM, marcel-hollerb...@t-online.de wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:59:40PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
>>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 08:54:38 -0500 mh<mhe...@member.fsf.org>  said:
>>>
>>>> On 12/23/2014 01:11 AM, Pierre Couderc wrote:
>>>>> Le 23/12/2014 00:19, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) a écrit :
>>>>>> likely alsa will get dropped and current mixer replaced by
>epulse.
>>>>> Fine !
>>>>>
>>>> sorry to hear that!
>>> mixer isnt in great shape, and alsa is definitely less used than
>pulse. and
>>> epulse is very solid and working well - so less bugs. it is far more
>fully
>>> featured.
>>>
>>> if people have a problem with this, then it may be an idea to get up
>and get
>>> your hands dirty. :)
>>>
>> There is a abstraction layer for backends in epulse, and as far as I
>> know there is a alsa backend, currently it is in a branch, but it
>works,
>> I run it a long time :)
>
>I'm old and slow and not a programmer so I wouldn't be much help ;) I 
>tried pulse again a few months ago, and it wouldn't recognize the 
>headphone jack. Maybe that's fixed now. I understood that pulse is just
>
>an abstraction layer on top of alsa, so not sure how alsa could go
>away?
>
>I use alsa to try an have as close to bit-perfect source for my
>external 
>dac and headphones. cd > alsa > external DAC/amp > headphones. With 
>pulse, it's cd > alsa > pulse > external DAC/amp > headphones.
>
>
>
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