I am Curious about adding the USB interface to a Audiomirror / Dac-ah ? is there a way to get it modded to add the usb direct, even if you have to eliminate the toslink or coax digital board ?
Interfacing Computer Music to D/A Converter ?
I'm really unfamiliar with this territory, perhaps someone can shed some light. Or links for more info.
Say i have a laptop computer and i store songs in my laptop either i-tunes or aiff files or applelossless.
I have a Benchmark dac 1. How do i interface the two in such that my laptop becomes the transport / source which can feed the songs to the Benchmark which in turn plays music to my hi fi system ?
Is using my laptop a better transport that say a dedicated cd player like marantz or pioneer dvd player ?
tks for info. highly appreciated.
Say i have a laptop computer and i store songs in my laptop either i-tunes or aiff files or applelossless.
I have a Benchmark dac 1. How do i interface the two in such that my laptop becomes the transport / source which can feed the songs to the Benchmark which in turn plays music to my hi fi system ?
Is using my laptop a better transport that say a dedicated cd player like marantz or pioneer dvd player ?
tks for info. highly appreciated.
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I am Curious about adding the USB interface to a Audiomirror / Dac-ah ? is there a way to get it modded to add the usb direct, even if you have to eliminate the toslink or coax digital board ? You may want to contact Vlad at Audio Mirror about thatcontact@audiomirror.com. You can certainly use an external conversion like a Waveterminal U24, Emprical USB Freeway, HagUSB or similar USB-S/PDIF convertor. |
Undertow - I can add high-performance USB to practically any DAC or even the DEQX, but the cost will depend on what is inside the DAC. The correct implementation is USB to I2S to D/A chip. Doing this has its pitfalls, namely muting and sample-rate decode. Unless these issues are addressed properly, functionality of the DAC will be lost or it may even output damaging DC at times. I would NOT trust this to an amateur modder. If the DAC contains a CS8414 or AD1896, then it makes it easier as I have boards designed already for these. I already add USB or I2S interfaces to these routinely: Benchmark DAC-1 Lite DAC-60 DEQX Steve N. Empirical Audio Manufacturer |
Undertow - I add it to the DAC-1 for $500 and to the DEQX for about $750. Depends on the DAC and which board I use. I can add it to almost ANY DAC easily and more cheaply with a wired version, but it will not address muting and Sample Rate decode. Then you must be careful about sequencing the power and not pulling the USB cable when powered-on etc.. If it is a capacitor-coupled DAC, then this is not as much of a concern. Steve N. Empirical Audio Manufacturer |
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