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    USB2 DAC

    What I have at the moment is great; an i3 computer feeding the Denon with HDMI and using WASAPI. It's about as clean as it gets. But without actually getting more equipment to listen to I'm just guessing.  Also, I want to replace the computer with something that draws less power. I'll have to...
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    USB2 DAC

    Thanks Oklahoma for the reply. That audioengine DAC is just at my price limit so becomes very attractive.    As I was saying, I'm not just looking for "a" method to feed audio to the receiver, every motherboard out there has some sort of Realtek audio chip, and I've progresses through a couple...
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    USB2 DAC

    Thanks for the reply. Just to explain myself a bit better:   I'm not in a situation of having a board that I need to connect to an amp by any means possible. In a slightly larger nutshell, I have a bunch of flacs sitting on a hard drive that I wish to play at best fidelity while using the...
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    USB2 DAC

    I wish to build a setup delivering audio from a single board computer, probably running Linux, to my receiver, a Denon X1000. I don't have a particular board yet, and the choice of audio over HDMI may / may not be available to me. That actually poses a question - if HDMI audio is available, is...
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    EXTERNAL SOUND CARDS

    Thanks for the heads up. I know it's difficult and sometimes quite weary work to recommend specific products, especially to someone like me who is kind of walking in the dark. Those SMSL products seemed to have all the check boxes ticked too. I found some other units   ...
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    EXTERNAL SOUND CARDS

    Fair enough, thank you for the info on what's going on and on the directions I should be looking. Looking further at items on eBay has led me to a slightly different type of device that that I was looking at. I found this   ...
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    EXTERNAL SOUND CARDS

    Thanks for the clear reply. I have noticed the trend away from S/PDIF without understanding it. I have a situation, however, that this makes more complicated. I want to build / use an ARM (or Atom) small, low power device running Linux to play music. The emphasis here is low power, I currently...
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    EXTERNAL SOUND CARDS

    Could someone tell me the difference between a USB soundcard and a USB to S/PDIF converter? They seem to have very much the same functionality.
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    What's your foobar2000 setup?

    I'm another with a liking for analogue meters, they bring back fond memories of four tracks, don't do a thing functionally though :)  Lyric Show 3 is very functional though, a great component. I don't usually have the Shpeck or lyrics windows open - with all that running, it takes up most of the...
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    Bit Perfect Audio from Linux

    Could I ask, which model Cubie did you decide on getting? Their models' features / pricing are a bit confusing, with the CubieTruck seeming to be less expensive than the preceding models ?   Sounds like you haven't taken delivery yet, but I would really like to know what build of XBMC you find...
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    Bit Perfect Audio from Linux

    Has anyone had experience with the Cubieboards? They would seem to offer everything that's needed: S/PDIF, a SATA port, and Fedora or Ubuntu. The version 3 board has Toslink, the previous version coax with some TTL level changing from its IO headers. 
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    Bit Perfect Audio from Linux

    Thanks TwinQY, I had a look at miniDLNA too, I kinda like it because of that simplicity; the alternative being the labyrinth of XML files in XBMC that I think were written by the same person who wrote Rogue, on a bad day, with a toothache and dentists visit coming up. It's probably got my...
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    Bit Perfect Audio from Linux

    I'm using XBMC on an i3 based machine ATM, and feeding my new Denon receiver audio via HDMI, The XBMC server is very nicely controlled with Yatse, running on an Android tablet. Yatse does beautiful cover art, remote control, has never crashed. All in all, I don't think I can better this. It...
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    Bit Perfect Audio from Linux

    I'll read all 12 pages of this eventually, but just to jump to the exciting bit, are any of these players able to be controlled via DLNA ? I realise using the words 'control' and 'DLNA' in the same sentence is hilariously oxymoronic but it's worth a try. Use case: Linux box full of songs needing...
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    CM6631A USB daughter card

    To further confuse me, I found this page talking about much the same need as I have. The products they mention eventually link back to the same CM based card I saw originally, as well as to a couple of other USB to S/PDIF converters.   ...
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