Sonore microRendu

[Miska]

10 hours ago, Em2016 said:

Ah crap. Is there a specific chip that they need in the hardware? Or do they charge a fee per unit, to 'approve' the hardware?

 

AFAIK, hardware in question has the DRM keys...

[Miska]

I have Toslink and Coax S/PDIF inputs plus AES/EBU on my HQPlayer Embedded machine. Google's Chromecast Audio dongle is dangling from the Toslink, Mac Mini is connected to the AES/EBU and Coax is waiting for Bluesound Node 2. Plus UPnP Renderer functionality works. That covers quite a lot of services already and everything is output at DSD512.

 

P.S. There's also 768/32 + DSD256 analog inputs, so vinyl and FM radio can be output as DSD512 through the same room correction stuff.

[Miska]

2 hours ago, ddetaey said:

Which audio board are you using, offering these different inputs?

 

RME HDSPe AIO for the digital inputs (it also offers 192/24 analog input). Plus RME ADI-2 Pro AE for the 768/32 and DSD256 analog inputs (it also has such digital inputs, but no automatic rate switching with HQPlayer yet thanks to the UAC2 pain).

 

P.S. I shortly used the coax input with my old CD-spinner to have a "transport + upsampler" configuration. But I don't really want to use silver discs anymore.