In Reply to: I am answering YOUR post. posted by Sordidman on June 23, 2015 at 08:48:49:
Abe's point is a good one. It rings true to me, in that I have a Mytek DAC.
All the problems of hardware/software compatibility that arise and complicate operating systems and cause support costs, overhead, and general cussedness do not magically go away when they are put into a package and called an "appliance". The resulting box is a computer and it has all of the negative aspects of computers.
One could probably find a way to add device support for some of the DACs by hacking the operating system. However, anyone with the ability to do this would be much better served building his own customized "computer", rather than pay a large markup over the base hardware for system integration that doesn't integrate his system. In the case of the Mytek, I did not try to see if I could get it to work on the USB of my Raspberry Pi. Among other reasons, the Pi used an ARM processor and the Linux binary driver was for Intel architecture only. The source code was proprietary to Mytek's vendor and thus it was a no-go. Depending on the processor in the Aurender this might or might not be an issue.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: I am answering YOUR post. - Tony Lauck 09:33:34 06/23/15 (14)
- RE: I am answering YOUR post. - Sordidman 10:30:16 06/23/15 (13)
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- I never said it was a regulation -t - Sordidman 13:45:21 06/23/15 (0)
- RE: I am answering YOUR post. - AbeCollins 12:40:55 06/23/15 (4)
- Why are you so defensive about your precious computers? - Sordidman 13:14:53 06/23/15 (3)
- RE: Why are you so defensive about your precious computers? - AbeCollins 15:34:05 06/23/15 (2)
- Either speculation is as good as the other.... - Sordidman 16:39:03 06/23/15 (1)
- RE: Either speculation is as good as the other.... - fmak 03:33:34 06/25/15 (0)