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MOT: Double Helix Cables
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BEFORE YOU READ THIS - THIS IS NOT A DAC. IT DOES NOT CONVERT TO ANALOG.
Update - I'm waiting to hear what this thing is capable of before I become truly interested in it. I need to know that it is a significant improvement over the PCLinkII that I have.
Well, I've got the makings of a nice setup coming together but I've been at a loss as to what is the right digital transport to get my computer wav/aiff/flac to my DAC. People have been pushing and pulling me in all directions saying X, Y, and Z is the best. It gets so controversial as to whether it's best to try to wirelessly remove the computer from the mix, and some people just say "It's only zeroes and ones." Leave it to Kingwa to add another product to the mix which I hope to be one of the first in the US to try.
I talked to him today, and while if you translate the original Chinese forum posts you'll see that he never sold it publicly, only to people that asked for it and so on, he says he is going to release it to us next month.
So, I asked him for the price, telling him that under $1000 would be great, and he assured me that it would be very cheap at the outset.
I tried to figure out all I could from the translated page, people over in China seem to like it pretty well, here's what I've found:
Power supply comparable in quality to that of the Ref1 but scaled to this smaller device
USB, optical, 2 coax and 2 BNC inputs
2 coax, 2 BNC outputs
DSP-1 for audio processing
Likely has current mode support to work with the CD7
Reclocking of the signal to remove jitter
Upsampling, you can set the sample rate with a knob on the front
Input switching - plug a ton of crap into your Ref1
USB to SPDIF conversion (obviously, that's its main purpose)
He could do something elaborate like the Squeezebox, but the fact is I think the whole removing the computer physically thing is overrated. Someone I know that is extremely experienced with gear worth 500x as much as mine uses a USB connection directly into a mac with a variety of other gear - they have tried every other solution possible and preferred this, so I am not at all phased by the idea of a direct computer connection, even if some people have had different results (like with $3000+ modded Squeezeboxes, although this is not in the same price class) with other gear. You never know what setup will work best for you, but I'm hoping this box will work for me.
Here's the pix from the AudioGD forum.
If anyone else knows anything relevant about this product...
Update - I'm waiting to hear what this thing is capable of before I become truly interested in it. I need to know that it is a significant improvement over the PCLinkII that I have.
Well, I've got the makings of a nice setup coming together but I've been at a loss as to what is the right digital transport to get my computer wav/aiff/flac to my DAC. People have been pushing and pulling me in all directions saying X, Y, and Z is the best. It gets so controversial as to whether it's best to try to wirelessly remove the computer from the mix, and some people just say "It's only zeroes and ones." Leave it to Kingwa to add another product to the mix which I hope to be one of the first in the US to try.
I talked to him today, and while if you translate the original Chinese forum posts you'll see that he never sold it publicly, only to people that asked for it and so on, he says he is going to release it to us next month.
So, I asked him for the price, telling him that under $1000 would be great, and he assured me that it would be very cheap at the outset.
I tried to figure out all I could from the translated page, people over in China seem to like it pretty well, here's what I've found:
Power supply comparable in quality to that of the Ref1 but scaled to this smaller device
USB, optical, 2 coax and 2 BNC inputs
2 coax, 2 BNC outputs
DSP-1 for audio processing
Likely has current mode support to work with the CD7
Reclocking of the signal to remove jitter
Upsampling, you can set the sample rate with a knob on the front
Input switching - plug a ton of crap into your Ref1
USB to SPDIF conversion (obviously, that's its main purpose)
He could do something elaborate like the Squeezebox, but the fact is I think the whole removing the computer physically thing is overrated. Someone I know that is extremely experienced with gear worth 500x as much as mine uses a USB connection directly into a mac with a variety of other gear - they have tried every other solution possible and preferred this, so I am not at all phased by the idea of a direct computer connection, even if some people have had different results (like with $3000+ modded Squeezeboxes, although this is not in the same price class) with other gear. You never know what setup will work best for you, but I'm hoping this box will work for me.
Here's the pix from the AudioGD forum.
If anyone else knows anything relevant about this product...
