Macbook Pro / Itunes
Airport Express N router
D-Link 2-bay NAS
2nd Airport Express N router
TOSLINK cable
DAC
Airport Express N router
D-Link 2-bay NAS
2nd Airport Express N router
TOSLINK cable
DAC
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Hi, I have been stimulated to join this forum after reading a bunch of interesting stuff on cables. I also saw the section on computer based audio, and as I've been battling with this for some time, and finally got somewhere, I thought I'd share the info:
There are a bunch of at this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDneP-b9aEE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I have recently moved house, and ditched the dell monity, and now use an iPad to control the system... Will post vid someone on this ......
HFX Media PC Case, Intel core2 Quad Q8200, Supermicro C2SEA MB, Corsair Twin3X 4x1GB DDR3 DHX, Patriot SSD 64 GB, Western Digital WD10EVCS CAVIAR silenced in a Smart Drive enclosure, Borg heat pipes on CPU, MB CPU power rails, G45 graphics chip and the ICH10 chip. Creative X-Fi Titanium sound card (includes Bit Matched playback).
Signal to Chord QDB76 DAC via Wireworld SuperNova 6 optical cable. Use of optical cable galvanically isolates the PC from the DAC. The QDB76 is a buffering DAC, which removed source clock jitter, and signal transmission jitter... So the slight increase in transmission jitter associated with optical cables is irrelevant here, and the galvanic (electrical) isolation provides further benefit. There is a huge amount of technology in this DAC, so worth reading about separately
Analogue signal transmitted via HGA 99.99% pure silver Litz configured interconnects terminated with silver plated OFC Audio Note RCA connectors to Chord CPM2600 integrated stereo amp. Speaker cable is Kimber 8TC, and speaker are B&W 805S.
Interface via Dell SX2210T 21.5"W Multi-Touch Monitor, and Windows 7 Ultimate. Access remotely via wireless network through Windows remote desktop sharing (RDP) to laptop when necessary.
Pstt.... That is what we call a protocol converter.
Nice video indeed Idiocratease. Who makes your PC case? And whose DAC is it? Does the buffered system keep up for long period of listening? Even 2 seconds is not enough to keep up for long periods and eventually the DAC may have to interpolate samples if it runs out. So I am curious how it handles that.
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