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RE: cMP - the open source high-end Memory Player

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My thoughts/changes so far:

Putting USB on the PCI-e 1x slot. This gives USB a serial connection instead of sharing the PCI bus.

Using an external USB DAC. If the computer provides bit-perfect USB data to the DAC, all the computer case concerns about heat and radiation go away.

I think this area is the weak part of cics's hardware design: The need to make the computer slow to (potentially) reduce problems with the DAC. Removing the DAC is a beter solution for many people.

PCI is a shared bus. PCI-e is a dedicated serial-like connection.

It's a fairly trivial task to provide perfect data to an external DAC, if it has a small buffer and a good clock.

So I guess I like most of the software approach of this project, but the logic of the hardware design escapes me. Especially underclocking.

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