Magirush
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I'm not really sure what to title this thread, or if this is in the right section or even website. I've been reading these forums for awhile, though I wouldn't consider myself a big audiophile.
Anyway, I have come into the possession of some pioneer dj hardware. More specifically, the pioneer cdj2000s and the pioneer djm 2000. Which are great for their purpose, really no complaints there. However, I've also found that the players and the mixer have some really high quality DACs and amps on them. If I put some lossless files on a thumb drive and plug them into the player, and use the headphone amp on the mixer it sounds really amazing.
Now, the mixer also connects to my laptop via an ethernet cable. You can do some neat things with this like sharing files around, but what I'm interested in is the link monitor function. This allows you to play music in pioneer's "Rekordbox" software, and then digital audio is sent over ethernet to the mixer, where it gets DACed and then played back through the mixer's headphone amp.
My question:
Since the mixer is capable of doing this, why can't it play all audio from my laptop? I know this feature is specific to the Rekordbox software, but would it be at all difficult to mod or tweak windows so that audio is sent over ethernet in a way that the mixer can decode it? I don't have really high hopes for this; it seems likely that pioneer have developed their firmware so that it will only decode signals given by Rekordbox. Still it seems like all the limitations are on the software side, so someone knowledgeable about how the software works could be able to accomplish this.
I'm also considering asking over at Pioneer's website, but I don't know if they would approve of this. So if anyone has any input it would be much appreciated. And it would save me a couple hundred bucks by solving all my pc audio needs
Anyway, I have come into the possession of some pioneer dj hardware. More specifically, the pioneer cdj2000s and the pioneer djm 2000. Which are great for their purpose, really no complaints there. However, I've also found that the players and the mixer have some really high quality DACs and amps on them. If I put some lossless files on a thumb drive and plug them into the player, and use the headphone amp on the mixer it sounds really amazing.
Now, the mixer also connects to my laptop via an ethernet cable. You can do some neat things with this like sharing files around, but what I'm interested in is the link monitor function. This allows you to play music in pioneer's "Rekordbox" software, and then digital audio is sent over ethernet to the mixer, where it gets DACed and then played back through the mixer's headphone amp.
My question:
Since the mixer is capable of doing this, why can't it play all audio from my laptop? I know this feature is specific to the Rekordbox software, but would it be at all difficult to mod or tweak windows so that audio is sent over ethernet in a way that the mixer can decode it? I don't have really high hopes for this; it seems likely that pioneer have developed their firmware so that it will only decode signals given by Rekordbox. Still it seems like all the limitations are on the software side, so someone knowledgeable about how the software works could be able to accomplish this.
I'm also considering asking over at Pioneer's website, but I don't know if they would approve of this. So if anyone has any input it would be much appreciated. And it would save me a couple hundred bucks by solving all my pc audio needs