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RE: Rapid change???

"People need to stop wasting their money chasing pipe dreams."

I thought that's what audiophiles did.


> But it may be improving soon as it closes in on "vintage".

You might even become a hip trendsetter.

> As the cost of implementing Ethernet continues to drop in price, power
> and size I wonder if we still need local busses for audio period.

There isn't that much difference in hardware required for a USB DAC or an Ethernet DAC. That hardware could include both a USB device connector and an Ethernet connector.

> If we just networked our audio systems so many problems would be
> alleviated, especially the long cable issues.

There hasn't been a suitable standard protocol for communications between devices via ethernet. Some candidates exist: Apple's air-play, DLNA (uPnP), Logitech Squeezebox protocol, plain old network file I/O (like Sonos) and Music Player Daemon <--> client protocol.

Once you get beyond the technical issues, there is the chicken and egg issue of the size of the market. An Ethernet DAC isn't very attractive unless there is a large installed base of devices it can talk to.

Bill

my blog: http://carsmusicandnature.blogspot.com/



Edits: 02/16/12

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