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In Reply to: itunes into high(ish)-end system posted by Heuer Shaun on February 3, 2007 at 23:56:20:
Heuer,Well if you use a MAC as the basis for the system the results will be the best.
You can use a PC and iTunes but you have to also use Foobar, kernel streaming and the MultiPlugin for iTunes Windows. This does bypass the KMIXER but with all that going on getting and dedicating a mac to the system is your best bet.
There are many cards that would work with say a MAC Pro. I would make sure the card works with PCI Express. But really the Mac Pro maybe an over kill for what you want too do.
A better suggestion would be a Mac Book or Mac Book Pro and an external firewire drive for storage and some external USB or Firewire dacs. I make several as others do. Do watch out that there are true USB dacs and those that convert to SPDIF and do the same old thing.
If you have any questions just send me an email.
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"You can use a PC and iTunes but you have to also use Foobar, kernel streaming and the MultiPlugin for iTunes Windows"That statement may be true if you want to use one of Gordon's DACs, but I'm using iTunes in Windows streamed wirelessly to an Airport Express coupled optically to an Altmann DAC. This bypasses kmixer and it sounds wonderful.
Hermanesque, do you have to change any settings in Windows? Or is kmixer bypassed, simply in the act of streaming to Airport Express?
nt
iTunes/AE or any of the other Wi-Fi products use network protocol, not streaming audio drivers, so they do not go through KMIXER. Simply data transfers. Windows does not know it's audio.
iTunes to USB? Is this also a 'data transfer? Would the computer know it's audio?Thanks.
Yes, iTunes to USB is audio streaming. Windows knows and goes through KMIXER unless you bypass with ASIO.
/nt
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