crazzell Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Hi, can someone recommend a box that will allow me to send music from lossless PCM files stored on my laptop hard drive to my Benchmark DAC1 (basic version without USB)? I was thinking of an M-audio transit or Edirol UA-1EX. Is one of these preferred? Is there anything that is a step up from these without going crazy? I was wondering whether to get a 1394/firewire card and use a firewire to SPDIF converter instead? Some say that this is a better approach for low jitter. In any of the above cases, I would be using ASIO or whatever tricks are needed to bypass kmixer. If someone has a tried and trusted recipe, I would be very interested to hear about it. Thanks in advance for any answers. --crazzell Link to comment
The Computer Audiophile Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 You may be able to get a Toslink / optical output card for your laptop. Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
g0rf Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 I'm using the edirol in my headphone system and it does the job pretty well. I wouldn't worry about jitter, the Benchmark should be able to handle it pretty well! “Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul” - Plato[br] Link to comment
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