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In Reply to: RE: Good scholarship! posted by Dawnrazor on July 03, 2009 at 12:59:22
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
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