I suggest keeping the list simple and focused on objective factors.
It should concentrated on
- whether the USB input of the dac is compatible with EDO
- what, if any, special procedure is required for compatibility
- Is a USB2 hub required, and if so, from which sampling rate
- up to what
With all due respect...
- A SBT is highly likely to be cheaper than a silent computer (and will
be more energy efficient... if you pay for electricity!)
- Much less tweaking will be required to install EDO than to set up a
half decent computer for bit perfect audio playback (see the 7 steps
Having just made an attempt at comparing the Duet Receiver (SBR) and the
Touch (SBT) with and without external DACs (Theta DS3Pro, Audiolab MDAC
with and without EDO), with matched volume levels, here are my
observations:
- The SBR analog outs are not as good as the SBT's. The difference is
not
trott3r wrote:
Hello,
At 11:10 15/07/2012, you wrote:
- The analog outs of the SBT are actually very good and very close to
what the MDAC on Toslink can deliver. There is a difference on some
tracks, but in my limited testing, it's not that easy to say which is
which, and which is
It seems that version 0.5 broke something with my Behringer UCA202 DAC
(connected directly without a hub), as when I enable the USB output, the
SBT keeps on rebooting (it's find with the digital only out). The
previous versions worked fine.
Triode wrote:
If you turn the volume down from 100%, does it work? Is this a usb2
high speed dac?
Making volume adjustable and lowering it doesn't resolve my issue, and
neither does adding a USB2 hub (powered or not).
The UCA202 is not a usb2 high speed dac, as this is a very cheap
adaptive
possibly a few warnings such as:
Apr 22 22:21:39 squeezeplay: WARN net.thread - NetworkThread.lua:146
network thread timeout for Task(SocketHttp
{fab4.squeezenetwork.com}(R))
I'm assuming the issue I experienced was a fluke with the update.
Eiffel
good wrt jitter using their coax or optical outputs,
but the asynch USB connection does away with this issue.
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