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In Reply to: RE: Good scholarship! posted by DBB on July 03, 2009 at 05:09:47
Good one DBB!
Me too.
I have not bought my "be all end all" DAC yet.
I will need 8 channels - so I will probably get into a MOTU, RME, Lynx Aurora or other solution. Might run a digital out slaved back to the DAC box with proper 75ohm terminations.
But I just bought a house (!!) and audio budget will be zippo for a year or two.
Quite frankly, from the way my modded DCX2496 box sounds, or even the analog outputs of my M-Audio Revo 7.1 card... I bet I would be happy as a clam with a Lynx / Aurora, Motu or RME solution.
I don't think using (3) USB dacs for tri-amping is going to work! ;)
The tinfoil hat wearing guys around here (who have nightmares about becoming mutants from their audio PC's RFI) would probably never even give a PCI solution a fair shot. There are some solutions that use a PCI card to send digital to an outboard box. These are custom designed solutions just for that box. (Creamware was a good example, they used a RJ45 network cable to send their data to their converter box).
Everyone here is so stuck on USB and now Amarra...
I probably won't get a MAC. Thus I don't have to worry about Amarra. And my love for multi-amping will most likely rule out USB...
I'm just a different kind of cat when it comes to PC audio.
By the by. I tested the phase correction on the Thuneau Allocator with all different orders of Butterworth, Linkwitz-Riley and even Deulund crossovers. The LR4 variation corrects to a bloody square wave. Perfect step response with no phase distortion. All you need is time aligned drivers and a transfer function that yields a true LR4 response and you speakers that are transient perfect. And getting a LR4 acoustic response is one of the easier ones to obtain using conventional drivers.
I managed to get (4) Vifa MG10MD09 4" fiberglass mids (!) and am going to build a time-aligned and phase-corrected WMTMW using the Allocator as a crossover. Can't wait for that to get finished!
I wonder how many guys here worry about speaker performance as much as they do jitter and USB cable "quality"??
Cheers,
Presto
Hey Presto,
I think for the most part we are on the same page on a great many things.
Your post is appreciated and timely.
I found myself stressing over the thunea allocator with my cmp2 setup. They seem at odds with one another. CMP2 is all about low latency, and well Thuneau isn't requiring big buffers.
I was thinking about passive line level crossovers but I have to remember that any solution will have some compromises and perhaps a bit of latency is a lessor evil vs extra connections, insertion losses, and transient imperfect crossovers.
YOu might want to look at some of the firewire products like the Aurora and the RME fireface as that could be the best of all worlds.
But I have to tell you that I really like my Lynx 2b. Not saying it is the best, but I certainly cant think of a product that has 6 channels of DtoA of that quality for the price.
And yeah, I cant tell you that the crossover in my system is probably the biggest weak link. True I modded it heavily, but active I think will take things to the next level. Speakers still do make a huge difference.
"I wonder how many guys here worry about speaker performance as much as they do jitter and USB cable "quality"??"
Good point Presto!
Yours truly, the USB manic with his cables and Amarra couldn't agree more with your statement. I just replaced my Wilson WP8s with Wilson Sasha W/P speakers. A truly amazing speaker; a little Maxx3. A revelation in audio reproduction here at Lucy's Lab.
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