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Seems like there is no way to use this with a miniDSP SHD studio or Flex as they can't output on USB. Is there any good non-PC DSP room correction and crossover that can output over USB or is this limited to PC based systems?Up in Topping page https://www.tpdz.net/productinfo/862560.html
Seems like there is no way to use this with a miniDSP SHD studio or Flex as they can't output on USB. Is there any good non-PC DSP room correction and crossover that can output over USB or is this limited to PC based systems?
Big question.and assuming the DM7 works on Linux
Oh wow I was way off!And it comes in at $599
Holy hi-fi Batman, no wonder the Okto DAC 8 Pro is a way more popular alternative. What about something like this? http://www.usbuirt.com/If you know your way around JSON and making http requests it's easily implementable. If you don't, not so much.
https://cdn-data.motu.com/downloads/audio/AVB/docs/MOTU AVB Web API.pdf
I may be wrong but for some reasons I always had lip sync issues with the optical output on TVs. Not to mention different latency based on the app/program used. Maybe Sony is an exception but unfortunately HDMI is still the right way to get audio out of TVs.I'm sure the Merging Hapi was discussed here, though certainly a much more costly alternative.
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I can't believe Okto didn't include the admittedly much less popular optical input, since it's included with the DAC 8 Stereo. That would have made the Pro 8 DAC more useful, such for using the internal speaker system of one these two TVs as a center channel speaker to build a 3.3 system:
https://electronics.sony.com/tv-video/televisions/all-tvs/p/xr65a95l
https://electronics.sony.com/tv-video/televisions/all-tvs/p/k65xr90
Apologies for Sony's asinine manner of displaying detailed specs, when the rest of the civilized world does it with pdfs.
And leave it to Sony to only include a single digital audio output-the far less common optical outputs, and with only 16 bit depth at that. Unlike the Okto DAC Stereo 8, the DAC Pro 8includes no native optical input-nor does the Merging Hapi DAC card, and adding that connectivity is absurdly expensive. https://www.markertek.com/product/m...dm-multimode-option-card-for-horus-hapi-mk-ii
However, might JRiver or some other MCH software interface be able to feed center channel info to the TV's "S Center Channel input" from the Okto DAC 8 Pro or Merging Hapi? Presumably, it's an analog input, but even though my Pioneer BD player and my HDPC will connect to the TV via HDMI for playing DVDs and BDs, as required here https://helpguide.sony.net/ha/strtaan10/v1/en/contents/TP1000735399.html , how likely will I be able to create a 3.3 system using the TV as a center speaker?
You should be able to use a cheap SPDIF to Toslink converter and an XLR to RCA cable fromHowever, might JRiver or some other MCH software interface be able to feed center channel info to the TV's "S Center Channel input" from the Okto DAC 8 Pro or Merging Hapi?
Technically, you are right because it is not on any of the commonly used A/D/A boards. However, optical S/PDIF is a standard feature of the Hapi main chassis.Unlike the Okto DAC Stereo 8, the DAC Pro 8includes no native optical input -nor does the Merging Hapi DAC card
If or when I would go multichannel, it would be for DVD and BD movie sound via my pc. JRiver would decode the Dolby Digital or DTS MA to output via USB to the Okto DAC 8 Pro or via CAT cable to the Merging Hapi DAC.What is your 7.1 source? By "XLR or SPDIF digital outputs" are you saying your source is 8 channels of AES (XLR) or SPDIF?
If the manual doesn't specify ask about it here [email protected]Looking at the manual of the Hapi Mkii.
Once equipped with 2 DA8(P) modules , it seems that one can output at the same time 16 analog channels and a copy of some or all channels via the aes/ebu output.
Is that correct?