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RE: We'll be making an Ethernet DAC later next year.

>> are we to understand that there will be BNC/coax, optical and AES/EBU digital inputs and not just ethernet? <<

The problem is that adding all of that stuff would probably double the price of the unit.

The Linn DS only has an Ethernet input. I think there is a fair amount of wisdom in that approach.

The difficulty is that there is a fundamental difference between a properly designed audio player and stupidly designed audio player. A proper system puts the audio master clock in the box with the DAC. A stupid system puts the audio master clock in the box with the transport. Then the DAC has to *recover* the clock instead of *generating* the clock.

A recovered clock will always have higher jitter and worse sound than a generated clock. Furthermore, they are two completely different systems that must be switched in and out as different sources are selected. Finally, all of those inputs must be properly isolated (trivial with optical inputs, expensive with everything else) as well as made switchable, meaning that there must be controls and displays on the front.

The bottom line is that the increase in price would be significant. Perhaps even as much as 2x And I'm not sure how many people that use a computer for their audio want to also hook up "old fashioned" sources to their system.

So for now, we will probably start with an Ethernet-only DAC like the Linn. Then if there is enough demand later, we might make a box that has other inputs, or we might simply make a separate DAC for stupid systems that need a recovered clock. We'll see. The whole thing is only in the very preliminary conceptual stage right now, and everything is subject to change.

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