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CageyH
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A sensible decision.
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Kevin
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Ash
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The JCAT USB card XE itch will be being scratched however. The Femto is about the same price range as a USBridge Signature and Digione Signature combo, without linear power supply. Even though one could say £650 is steep for a PSU, I'm still going with Graham's because I know it is a mature design. The JCAT XE doesn't benefit from a USB isolator like the Femto and the tolerances of the clock and regulators are much improved, as well as having automatic power supply selection. For a device of this quality to go into a Bitzie and both having superb regulated power, I can only imagine how glorious the analogue output will sound with MySphere 3.1 when the circuits have "burned in". This is much more exciting than the streamer ideas I have been going over for the last few months and I can compare it to the S/PDIF_0 from the motherboard. The difference between them is going to be very very significant, I think. I'm confident enough to take a blind leap of faith.
P.S I am interested to use one of the USB connections for the DAC of choice and the second USB for perhaps a USB 3.0 CD/DVD/Bluray drive. This could be a very high fidelity way for ripping/playing disc media.
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Lucabeer
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Just a minor precisation: no need for USB 3.0 for audio. 2.0 is plenty. My Oppo BDP-105D (CD/DVD/Bluray/SACD and DAC) is permanently connected to a 2.0 USB, and it works even for high resolution 24/96 files. |
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I'm going to go back to my Hystou mini-PC for a while. I have an idea to use a mini-PC as an audio computer rather than a ATX or mini-ITX motherboard, where the costs of all the parts add up to quite a lot and it offers much more features than I need.
Looks like I could use the mini-PCIe interface with a converter board to plug in a 1x PCIe USB card. I'd like to try it and perhaps look at some more single board computers that can run both Windows and Linux.
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CageyH
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Have you seen this Ash?
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Kevin
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I haven't watched this particular video yet but I have been watching several other videos from this youtuber.
There are so many options to choose from and everything is so expensive. I would be dropping hundreds to thousands of pounds on purely blind faith, relying solely on their "expertise". Some of the products on "high-end audio PC" cost silly money and I am skeptical of their true benefit. A fool and his money are easily parted and perhaps that will be the case for me here.
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I completely agree.
He is using a £350 SATA lead on his £600 60Gb SSD, just for the OS. |
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