Ask Pavel or see if you can find: DIYINHK_UsbAudio_v4.59.0_2019-02-28_setup.exe
Thanks. I ask Okto Research.Ask Pavel or see if you can find: DIYINHK_UsbAudio_v4.59.0_2019-02-28_setup.exe
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Pictures please.Seems there are now a growing number of us, so thought this might be helpful.
Received mine about two weeks ago. Got an HDPlex case and put together a Windows 10 PC specifically dedicated to audio playback. Using JRiverMC and the ASIO driver made available to me by Pavel of Okto Research.
Everything’s working well so far, but I have one question. I have a few multichannel SACDs ripped to files that when played, are converted to PCM by JRiver and put out. If I go into DSP Studio in JRiver and set Output Encoding to DSD, under the Channels section, the number of channels automatically changes to 2, and the files get converted to stereo during playback. I can only choose “source number of channels” if I select Output Encoding to none.
Anyone know a work around to playback the files in native DSD? It’s not a huge deal to me, as I don’t think I could really here a difference between the two, but I’d like to know if it’s possible.
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/DSDSeems there are now a growing number of us, so thought this might be helpful.
Received mine about two weeks ago. Got an HDPlex case and put together a Windows 10 PC specifically dedicated to audio playback. Using JRiverMC and the ASIO driver made available to me by Pavel of Okto Research.
Everything’s working well so far, but I have one question. I have a few multichannel SACDs ripped to files that when played, are converted to PCM by JRiver and put out. If I go into DSP Studio in JRiver and set Output Encoding to DSD, under the Channels section, the number of channels automatically changes to 2, and the files get converted to stereo during playback. I can only choose “source number of channels” if I select Output Encoding to none.
Anyone know a work around to playback the files in native DSD? It’s not a huge deal to me, as I don’t think I could really here a difference between the two, but I’d like to know if it’s possible.
Im not understanding why you’d want to use two different amps for music and home theater. If the stereo amp is better why not always use it?Better to describe with pictures. My PC set up with crossovers is already done as described here
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...uring-a-pc-as-a-8-ch-pre-pro-experiment.14785
I am now trying to figure out the DAC+Amp portion of that setup downstream of the PC. So the box being suggested (may be there is a completely different solution) would be the black box here:
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I have a 8 channel amp right now where all of them can go through but it is not good enough for music. I would like to add a good stereo amp. Would like to avoid using that stereo amp for L and R of HT (though that is simplest) which would require both on.
The constraints are:
1. After a switch, there is no signal degradation
2. The switch is remote controlled (or perhaps based on sensing signal automatically but that would require the right amp turned on outside of that box somehow)
3. It is safe in that it disconnects one amp before switching to the other and does some soft things to avoid any pops,etc
4. Ideally, it would have 12v triggers (and perhaps this is where it gets into DIY territory), so it would turn on/off the two amps based on what it is switching to.
So, from UX perspective, one switches to the correct source on PC, and toggles a remote button for music/HT and the right thing happens above with the correct amp turning on and the other amp turning off.
I can sort of do all of the above using an AVR or a pre-amp with HT bypass (that has a programmable trigger for each source selection) but that necessitates the use of the internal DAC in that unit not the external DAC.
So far 1 seems possible, 2 only with sensing as suggested earlier or with a physical switch on the unit. There are 3 units that apparently satisfy 3 but with a physical switch. None with 4.
Hoping someone had seen a one-off solution somewhere.
Searching various forums this has been a constant use case question over the last decade it seems!
Im not understanding why you’d want to use two different amps for music and home theater. If the stereo amp is better why not always use it?
Hello Vasr,
My present suggestion is that you should avoid any switching in SP level signals in your system, and you would be better to re-consider to have digital switching mechanism before the signals go into the DACs.
I found (and Pavel of OCTO confirmed) that you can achieve two DAC8PROs in sync manner by connecting first DAC8PRO's AES/EBU digital OUT (CH1+CH2) into second DAC8PRO's AES/EBU digital IN, and both DACs still can work as 8 channel USB DAC, and you would have 16 channel DAC port available for flexible output routing for 16 channel multi-amplifiers. I assume this 16 channel DAC operation could be another possible solution for you.