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Re: Cheapest possible solution

I have a Juli@ in one of my systems and it works quite well. It actually has a native ASIO driver which seems to work rock solid with Jriver. ESI has even released a Vista driver so you should be fine whatever OS you are choosing.

Compared to the Maudio DIO24/96 in my main system there are a few minor quibbles.

- It only supports sample rates of 44.1Khz and up. That means you can't listen to many clips from the WEB.

- You can not control the output volume of the S/PDIF output. Not a problem if you only plan to go to a DA10 but can be limiting for other uses.

- If you plan to route system sounds and you music playback to the same card then the ASIO output cuts out while system sounds are playing. On the M-audio the sounds get mixed preserving the bit-perfect property if only the ASIO stream is playing. I have system sounds configured to go to a different card on thr system with the Juli@.

The DA10 is a nice DAC.

Cheers

Thomas

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