Lavry DA-10 or Aqvox: need some help

[brospin]

Originally Posted by thomaspf

Lavry has the manual for the DA10 online and you can read all about it including the wiring for unbalanced RCA connections.

In my experience the DA10 does not require a sophisticated low jitter digital source. I have connected the DA10 to a variety of digital sources including a portable Iriver H120 and in crystal lock mode I can not concern any differences. The crystal lock dejittering circuit seems to work well which makes this a great source for computer based systems.

Cheers

Thomas

What transport would you recommend for use with the DA-10? Maybe the M-Audio transit? It is unexpensive, 24bit/96kHz and ASIO compatible. It has only optical out, but there are not many USB to coaxial converters in the market at least in Europe (M-Audio Audiophile USB, but it is big an has a lot of features I won't ever use).

[brospin]

Originally Posted by slwiser

Am I reading this right? You think you would need the 1000$ Off-ramp to get the Lavry DA10 to sound right?

I think not....Just my opinion...

The regular RCA cables work fine with the XLR to RCA plugs shown around here in the Lavry threads and on the Lavry forum.

I must admit it really is a bit decompensated to use the Offramp with the Lavry. Maybe an M-Audio transit would be enough.
I've been looking for XLR to RCA adapters/cables and the ones I've found always are "Wired according to IEC 268-12: pin 2 = signal, pin 1 and 3: connected to ground". Therefore the internal jumpers need to be switched to unbalanced configuration (pin 3 connected to ground) and the polarity must be set to reverse to have pin 2 hot (default is pin 3 hot). Although this is no real problem, I would prefere not to move the jumpers and use a real balanced XLR to unbalanced RCA adapter/cable (pin 3 signal, pin 1 ground, pin 2 unconnected). Do you know where I can find it?

[slwiser]

I ran my Lavry off my HagUSB fine except my USB signal is flaky so I went with the Juli@.

My next computer with a stable USB may get a new HagUSB.

Originally Posted by brospin

I must admit it really is a bit decompensated to use the Offramp with the Lavry. Maybe an M-Audio transit would be enough.
I've been looking for XLR to RCA adapters/cables and the ones I've found always are "Wired according to IEC 268-12: pin 2 = signal, pin 1 and 3: connected to ground". Therefore the internal jumpers need to be switched to unbalanced configuration (pin 3 connected to ground) and the polarity must be set to reverse to have pin 2 hot (default is pin 3 hot). Although this is no real problem, I would prefere not to move the jumpers and use a real balanced XLR to unbalanced RCA adapter/cable (pin 3 signal, pin 1 ground, pin 2 unconnected). Do you know where I can find it?

[thomaspf]

I have tried the DA10 with optical outputs from my Laptop (Acer Travelmate 8200), a really cheap Audiotrak Optoplay, and the Iriver H120 and they basically all sound the same in crystal lock mode.

The M-audio Transit provides bit perfect playback on XP and should work fine. A couple of people on this forum have reported success with it but I do not have a lot of personal experience with it.

Cheers

Thomas

[profsbg]

I use the Lavry DA10 connected via optical to M-Audio Transit from a Powerbook. The only issue I have encountered is that even though I have the Powerbook set up for 44.1 KHz (the only option in fact with my version of OSX), the Transit outputs 48.0 KHz regardless of the settings in its Preference panel. I believe the Transit can only do 48.0 and 96.0, whereas the Audiofile can also do 44.1. I am curious if others have same experience.

I use XLR-RCA adapters with pin 2 signal and cannot tell difference with polarity reversed or not (it is frontpanel switchable).

[blessingx]

One other DA10 strength I think should be mentioned is its value it as a headamp. The headphone out in the front for single ended terminations (and lower impedance) and the back XLR for balanced (and higher impedance) both compete (in my opinion beats) several popular $600-800 amps around here. It's easily surpassable, but the fact that it took a MPX3 to soundly win, shows its strength IMO.

And Oliver it looks much better in combination with my black MacBook.

[thomaspf]

I have never heard that the Transit is limited to 48/96 Khz. In fact, on Windows it is one of the few solutions that can provide bit perfect playback without requiring ASIO or kernel streaming.

A couple of people on this forum have reported bit perfect playback using 16/44.1, however, that again was under Windows.

Cheers

Thomas

[slwiser]

Again my system seens flaky with some things, but when I was using the Transit it would only provide an 88.1 signal to me. Go figure. Of course that is what I did not want while using the Lavry.

Originally Posted by thomaspf

I have never heard that the Transit is limited to 48/96 Khz. In fact, on Windows it is one of the few solutions that can provide bit perfect playback without requiring ASIO or kernel streaming.

A couple of people on this forum have reported bit perfect playback using 16/44.1, however, that again was under Windows.

Cheers

Thomas