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RE: Has anyone used both the LYNX and JULI@ cards?

Rick,

I thought more about your question of whether the Lynx card would be an upgrade to your use of a Juli@ digital section as an interface to your DAC. After doing some research (including reading Mark's & Serge's comments below), here's some thoughts...


1. If you were just going to use the analog out of one of the cards or the other, one of the Lynx cards would almost surely be better.

2. There doesn't appear to be any easy way to get I2S out of the Lynx card, so you'd be using SPDIF out of it. I believe that a well-implemented I2S is better than a SPDIF connection, so you are ahead using the Juli@ with I2S if it's done right... and I think your K&K Juli@->I2S & the galvanic isolation in the K&K DAC make it a good I2S implementation. So I think you're already ahead.

3. As you noted, the Juli@ is pretty easy to modify and at <$150, not so expensive that you worry excessively about breaking it. So you can do additional things to improve its effectiveness that you are less likely to do to one of the Lynx cards because of their cost (and as best I can tell, higher level of complexity).

4. As Mark noted below, a Juli@ with some basic power mods and a galvanically-isolated SPDIF TOSLINK connection equaled or beat the Lynx cards. You already have equivalent mods on your Juli@ AND a galvanically-isolated I2S connection. So (without being able to easily compare) your modified Juli@/DAC setup should be equaling or beating a stock Lynx/DAC setup.

All of that is to say, you're probably not going to do better with one of the Lynx cards for your setup.

I hope this makes sense!

Greg in Mississippi



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