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Cannot set up a Computer for audio - get a network streamer

Bargain Alert.

For $1300 you can add a "network Streamer" to your HiFi, which does not do DSD at all, has no USB connection to the DAC, uses SPDIF only (read jitter central on 99 out of 100 DAC's out there), requires you to buy an iPad or aPad to control it and a NAS to hold the data.

Considering that the hardware in the streamer is low grade enough no self respecting 2014 cellphone would employ it and considering it is based on generic computer/cellphone chips this must be a huge bargain.

Then again, 399 + 5 USD buys you a touchscreen equipped cellphone that can stream DSD-512 and PCM-768 from local SD Card storage to any USB DAC so equipped and can stream up to 500MbPS (enough in theory for DSD512) plus needed software and it would even be battery powered.

Or you could get a Touchscreen equipped 14" Ultrabook of last years generation for that money and add software.

People sitting in glasshouses and all that...

Thor

At 20 bits, you are on the verge of dynamic range covering fly-farts-at-20-feet to intolerable pain. Really, what more could we need?


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