In Reply to: Tony's Player posted by John Swenson on July 13, 2012 at 00:15:47:
John.
I'd approach the thing differently.
What we need is a DAC with the best possible signal recovery/restauration on it's input. It should be an external standalone device.
The Transport side should become kind of irrelevant. It shouldn't matter If I use my PC,SBT,iPad,Android as long as the signal is bit perfect.
Working on the transport side is much too complex.
What IMO matters is a device which can talk to all those commonly used devices and comes up with the same SQ from all of them.
When is comes to usability ( two button control !?!?!): I've been presenting my stuff feeding an Anagram DAC on a DIY-fair. We compared it to ec-designs SD-player.
The majority in the room (all audiophile nuts - including me) prefered
the iPeng control of the simplistic SD player control. The differences in SQ were subtle. The differences in operating the devices were unacceptable to all of them.
I think spending more work on SB kind of projects is waste of time.
Buy a Rasberry PI at 35$ that runs squeezeplayer at up to 192khz and hook up a USB DAC to it.
BTW:
Have you checked out "IANcanada"'s reclocker project @ DIY-audio- digital section?? Perhaps a nice building block to make a better DAC.
Good luck.
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- RE: Tony's Player - soundchekk 02:52:38 07/14/12 (4)
- RE: Tony's Player - John Swenson 16:55:44 07/15/12 (0)
- RE: Tony's Player - Dynobot 05:26:55 07/14/12 (0)
- Rasberry PI at 35$ - fmak 03:33:31 07/14/12 (1)
- RE: Rasberry PI at 35$ - soundchekk 04:07:51 07/14/12 (0)