In Reply to: RE: Excellent post! Thank you and one quibble. posted by John Swenson on October 26, 2009 at 00:33:23:
John,
First there are a ton of new optical USB 2.0 products. You can goto Lcom and take a look. There are also some that work off of 10BT cable and are isolated etc...
But really if you are worried about a computer and EMI and stuff then what do you think an Ethernet server is? Heck most of them probably would not even pass FCC testing A or B. Something every commercial computer would have to qualify for.
I think for Ethernet to really become an audio standard (and it can) is that it needs some easy way to be linked to any computer and or application. While JACK does that, it's not something that holds up under fire. What we need is some prototype setup that developers can have a virtual device driver interface that will allow the Ethernet dac look like a selectable audio output.
Thanks
Gordon
J. Gordon Rankin
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- John more thought - Gordon Rankin 05:23:09 10/26/09 (1)
- I believe his entire premise is to get the thing out of the audio system's room - keith_d 06:35:09 10/26/09 (0)