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Hi Ninjidiran, What do you mean the USB is not good. I am really not good at all this terminalogy. I thought the only way to get the signal out of my computer was to use the USB. Is there a better way?
He (nijikirian) meant that the USB receiver chip implementation on the Maverick D1 is probably the weakest link in its overall design. The Cirrus Logic DAC chipset will handle files up to 96/24, but if you use the USB input, you are limited to 44/16. The Maverick also has optical and 75-ohm coaxial inputs, and if you have an S/PDIF-out coaxial output on your soundcard or motherboard (many CD, DVD and BluRay players have them), you can go directly into that input for what is probably the best connection. Optical is OK and can sound quite good, but most computer implementations of an optical output introduce jitter with all of the electrical-signal-to-light-and-back-to-electrical signal conversion. A USB-to-S/PDIF converter like my Teralink X2 (budget priced at about $75 new) makes a very good companion to the D1, and included a 1-ppm (part-per-million) clock circuit to stabilize the signal coming out of your computer before it gets sent to the DAC.