In Reply to: Could a USB DAc like the Crimson get input from Squeezebox? posted by ted_b on December 30, 2006 at 21:35:38:
Ted - it would be kind of like killing one bird with two stones and all your cash.By the time you spring for one of Waynes ultimate power supplies, you may as well pay him to mod your SB too and use the internal DAC. No matter how many gold Bybees you add, it will still be less then a Crimson. And if you are going to spend Crimson cash, you are going to want to drive it the way Gordon intended it... Adding an Offramp also requires a USB signal to feed it...
There are two fundamental issues. One is that there is no way to output a USB datastream from the SB be it to an Offramp, Brick or Crimson. (You can of course output SPDIF and go to a conventional DAC, which is something lots of people do with good results.) Second, and equally problematic is that there is no provision to access a music library via two different communication protocols.
Basically the real choice here is do you want a network device (SB) (or a whole bunch of them say scattered around your plantation) accessing a common database (Music Library) through a browser interface; or do you want a single computer device (Crimson, Brick, Tube Dac etc) that is not networked but is instead controlled directly by a computer (USB)
There are advantages to both approaches - costs, environmental preference (PC in listening space or not) and flexibility (one station or many, wireless). Both solutions offer superb sound - I know because I have both modded SBs and a Brick. And they can coexist nicely sharing a common Music Library simultaneously.
As they used to say, pick your poison and pay your money
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Follow Ups
- Re: Could a USB DAc like the Crimson get input from Squeezebox? - xmasparty@mac.com 23:49:33 12/30/06 (9)
- Re: Could a USB DAc like the Crimson get input from Squeezebox? - laznos 00:25:37 12/31/06 (8)
- Re: Could a USB DAc like the Crimson get input from Squeezebox? - John Swenson 02:18:20 01/01/07 (5)
- Re: Could a USB DAc like the Crimson get input from Squeezebox? - Cappy 21:14:13 01/02/07 (0)
- Re: Could a USB DAc like the Crimson get input from Squeezebox? - wacomme 14:57:07 01/01/07 (3)
- Re: Could a USB DAc like the Crimson get input from Squeezebox? - xmasparty@mac.com 23:06:35 01/01/07 (2)
- AE can be modded for USB - Gordon Rankin 13:08:11 01/02/07 (1)
- Re: AE can be modded for USB - wacomme 08:13:40 01/06/07 (0)
- Re: Nice analysis....thanks! [nt] - alan m. kafton 12:32:00 12/31/06 (0)
- Re: Could a USB DAc like the Crimson get input from Squeezebox? - Mercman 03:50:36 12/31/06 (0)