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Re: need advise for first computer and its connecton to main music system

Check out the PC audio forum.

It is 2 links below this forum on the main page.

A good recommendation IMHO is to use the computer only for music and put in a pro level sound card like the Lynx l22 or the Emu products.

Just run the analog outs in to your pre amp, or run directly to your amps and skip the pre.

If those ATCs of yours can accept a crossed over signal, than you may want to thing about using the PC as a digital crossover and buy the Lynx 2b (www.lynxstudio.com) that has 3 balanced outs and get the crossover program at www.thuneau.com.

THis is a simple set up that sounds fantastic and it smoked my trans dac combo.

FOr control, you can use a pda or a wireless or wired touch screen, even an RF remote for Volume and mute, etc.

FOr players, Foobar and Winamp seem to be prefered, and you HAVE to use the ASIO plug ins that are available.

Make sure you are using lossless of some sort. Flac is probably the most prefered, but some like me are just using cue sheets and .wavs.

ANother approach may be to just get a USB dac and connect it to the PC. Or get a device that will do USB to SPdif (or I2s) to a regular hifi dac. For me, this just seemed a bit complicated and took up another shelf, and it is very expensive to do tri-amping this way.

Do a search.


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  • Re: need advise for first computer and its connecton to main music system - Dawnrazor 17:06:35 04/19/07 (1)

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