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In Reply to: Re: DawnRazor - are you using LynxTWO-B ? posted by Triodeuser on October 10, 2006 at 15:06:47:
For the long term you may also consider the AES16 which will work into the Auora 8.An external high quality exeternal dac is more flexible. The AES16 is also 24/192 digital capable and aloows for two wire operation at highrez.
I am not sure if the L2B works digitally beyond 24/96 - ask Dawnrazor.
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> > The AES16 is also 24/192 digital capable and aloows for two wire operation at highrez.Hi.
What specifically is "two wire operation"? Does that just mean that you have multiple digital outs running two to separate external devices, or are you running two wires to the same external device?
Some studio dacs/processors need to run anything beyond 96k on two cables and it is only recently that single wire high sample rate dacs are available. This allows one to buy used high end stuff at afforddable prices and get the benefit of much higher performance than $1000 dacs.
Yep Fred,It only does 24/96 digitally, but its analog outs have no problem with 24/192.
Now if Triode is going to do away with his crossover and tri-amp, the 2b is the way to go...unless he is going to have digital amps that accept digital ins and wants to run fully digital.
Patrick Cazales of ACXO fame was doing this into some Tact amps...that is why he built the ACXO player around the AES-16. I thought it was pure genius (except that I am not sure if digital amps are all they are hyped to be) so I just did the same thing but ANALOG with the 2b.
Now is an external high quality dac really more flexible if one wants to triamp; especially if one looks at mundane things like....price?
Yes, an external very high quality dac with jitter busting unit is really worth it.I am getting excellent sound from my Tranquil MP745 PC with Pansonic 845 drive outputting ripped 44.1 CDs thru the AES16 into dCS 972, upsampling to 176.4k and into dCS954 as good as my Sony SCD777ES as transport.
The big thing over the transport is that I can play up to 192k material from HD, and 88.2k ripped SACDs from a Pioneer DV575 with the Oelich board (for 75 euro).
For long term, the board without dac frees you from the constrains of a PCI based and powered dac.
F,Are you seriously saying that triode (who wants to get rid of his crossover) should buy an AES16, 3 dCS 972s and 3 dCS954s?
Going the route you are suggesting no matter what Dac one purchases, means 3 times the dacs. NOw if you run the AES-16 into digital amps, that makes sense, especially financially...but if you have non digital amps, and you want to do crossovers in the computer, it is way easier and more economical to get the 2b. Unless of course one has the finances to drop an extra 3k (assuming that a high quality external dac is about 1k these days).
If that is the case and Triode has 3k or more to put into this, then sure, an AES-16 is probably the way to go.
No; just saying that he should consider keeping option open on external dac. He may already have one.
Thanks for your input -My current gameplan is to use the PC with the Digtital crossover - and use the DAC in the Crossover.
basically using the PC as a fileserver and essentially as a transport.
I may at some point do away with the digital crossover - if I can have the same flexibility that I do now - One important issue is if the better Burr-Brown converters will be used.
t this point in time, my guess is that I probably will wind up with a DEQX because of the Burr Brown converters.
Granted, if I can do it all with software in the PC, as easy or easier, I'll do it with the PC and no crossover - provided the quality is as high, not sure what actual DAC is being used in the card.
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