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Nope can't work in slave mode.

We did some tests with the AES16 with the word clock enabled and disabled ("Synchro Lock", AES16 as the master. I am interested in trying this card with a DAC that allows it to slave) and the difference with BNC connection on my Assemblage DAC is readily apparent. Maybe big bucks doesn't have to be spent to get a good digital transport, but this test certainly made me a believer in not always going for the cheapest sound card available. At ~ $700, the bump in resolution is worth it to me....maybe not with some mid level headphone setups, but with a TOTL speaker setup it's worth it (again for me).

I was thinking the same think. Live For Speed on that setup...

The Squeezebox is ok, I think they need to optimize their server software a lot. My software interface and the SB3 lags quite a bit with my music collection (and I have 6 GB of memory in the server) But if I have everything loaded in foobar2000 it works perfectly with no lag and doesn't use that much resources. This is with a much slower laptop with only 1 GB of memory.

You guys need to get on Tweeter, then you can check out the sw8 computeraudiophile twits and pics.

The AES16 can slave/master the word clock, so I don't think the afore mentioned products are meant to be competing with it. edit: Also x2 feckn, I would want BNC as well. Mostly because I'd rather get the Lynx than one of these USB things.

Any of the vendors drag Sound Lab speakers there?

Yeah it's a pisser. My card got charged on September 9 (I think) and nothing still. I haven't been able to get Todd on the phone using either the toll free number or the other one. I was really hoping to bring these to Houston with me so I'd at least have something to listen to music with \

Damn. Nice haul 'stretch

Worked about 70 hours in 4 days. Woowoo. I wonder what I'll do with my three day holid asokpfaopsjfqwer rweasdfopwejfa'osjef woops passed out on the keyboard. /postjack

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Happy birthday!

Happy birthday Wayne!

Enjoyed some 92 F weather in September as I explored the TMC/UT/Baylor campus

The Flaming Lips - Embryonic edit: second listen today. Simply brilliant, I love that Wayne and co. have the balls to release a more experimental/"avant-garde" album unlike SB/Yoshimi/Mystics despite their successes.

Nice impressions Brent

Welcome to Head-Case

Yes good point I didn't think of that Maybe it's poorly worded and means it upsamples USB data to that frequency. Then that is a bit strange, since it does have a Blackfin DSP on board and I believe someone here was going to (or thought about) using a Blackfin for regular USB input from a computer.

One of them is in the front. Maybe if someone wants to come over with a laptop or something.

No thread for the latest ladder DAC on Head-Case I believe it does HDCD, looks like it does it through the custom DSP filter? Naim Audio # Chassis: The 3mm aluminium chassis and die cast fascia provide the fundamental structural rigidity necessary for low microphony. # Printed Circuit Boards: Six layer glass fiber PCBs optimised for low microphony and high speed data transfer. # Analogue Filters: Two Cascaded third order Sallen-Key active filters giving 36dB/Octave roll-off. Each stage incorporates Naim zero-feedback complimentary buffers. # I to V Converters: Convert the current output of the digital to analogue converters to a voltage waveform ready for analogue filtering. # DAC Chips: Burr Brown PCM1704K. A true multi-bit digital to analogue converter chip as used in the CD555. # Re-clocking Gate: Re-clocks the data immediately before it enters the DAC chips to remove any influence from the isolation circuits. # Crystal Sine-wave Oscillators: Crystal oscillators have lower signal correlated noise and phase noise than voltage controlled clocks. The DAC employs ten separately tuned oscillators. # DSP to Analogue Electrical Isolation: Ensures that the high frequency noise of digital electronics cannot leak into the analogue output stages. # SHARC DSP: Operates on the digital data to filter the out-of-band artifacts. 40bit, 16 times over-sampling topology. # Blackfin DSP: Handles USB, controls the DAC and conditions the incoming USB data. # Data RAM: Buffers the incoming S/PDIF data stream ready for re-clocking by the appropriate crystal oscillator. # Low Noise Power Supply: Multi-regulated and smoothed power supply with separate outputs for each element.

Thanks for the heads up!

Lots of packing and cleaning the apartment, because I'm moving to Houston on Sunday for five months. New rotation at TMC starts on the first of October.

My Aleph 30 sounded nothing like what you're describing. It's still a transistor amp, is it possible to get a harmonic signature that leans that far towards a tube sound without breaking something in the design? The amp sounded damn good, just IMO not a great match with the K1000.

Happy birthday! Hope it was a good one

This review shows the 4870 beating the 260 in a lot of benchmarks. Radeon HD 4870: Better Than GTX 260! : Introduction - Review Tom's Hardware