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Re: Lynx and RME cards.

Dawnrazor:

Actually, in my case the system would be tri-amped.

There are multichannel DACs out there that have wordclock I/O. You could run AES/EBU over to such a DAC *and* use the PC for playback and crossover functions. Even better, since one is digitally tri-amping, you have access to each channel pair, meaning that you can convolve a correction impulse for each band (low, mid and high).

I'm not slamming the Lynx2B. It's probably one of the best PCI solutions available (if not THE best). The reason I am not getting one is because I want to put the $ towards a multichannel DAC with wordclock out and slave a digital multichannel soundcard to it. I do think there is always an advantage to getting the DACs completely out of the PC and powering them with batteries or the cleanest power possible. This is especially imortant since the DAC in this case would also be the clock source.

I don't know if I would call synchronous data transfer "esoteric". I think studio people consider $10,000 DACs that have only a consumer clocked spdif input to be more "esoteric" than synchronous studio gear costing half that much.

Considering the gear you have, it may not make sense to use that DAC and slave the Lynx to it. You could try it though. You could even convert that DAC to battery power. I'm just saying: I'm not going to spend THOUSANDS on a consumer spdif dac. I think for similar money I'd want to at least TRY synchronous. Many folks believe that the home audio realm is out to lunch with clocked spdif. One company even mods transports so you can slave your transport to your DAC, instead of having a transport with a clock source and a DAC with a clock source and a PLL in between.

Now, we're not comparing apples to apples here: the Lynx 2B is a PCI based DAW and with a built in 6 channel DAC for $1000. I'm talking about a $600 mutltichannel digital card slaved to a $2500 - $5000 professional multichannel DAC with wordclock I/O.

Maybe it's the next level. Maybe it's not. But one thing for sure, it's definately synchronous.

Cheers,
Presto


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