Sure. What is the rest of the system/context?
Thanks Kal. Here you go. there is a long term plan and there is a short term plan
Short term : Set up a multichannel music system to listen in my living room (apartment) which is around 25 Sq Meters.
Current equipment - Canton Ref 9.2 DC stand-mounts on their respective stands and Canton 50.2 Centre speaker. An Audiophonics LPA-S500NC connected to the standmounts. My music (mostly Jazz-Beebop and Jazz-Acoustic some classical and an occational pop ) right now plays off an android phone connected to the SMSL SU-9n via USB. The DAC and the amp are connected via short XLR cables. My music library is not large, but I do have a few dozen hours worth of multichannel HiRes FLACs. If the plan works out well, then the plan is to invest more in m-ch music. I have
not invested in M-ch DSD much. Currently the L/R speakers stand on either side of a bookshelf which is 3.5M wide. The centre speaker occupies the centre-bottom shelf with the TV (60-ich) occupying the shelf above. The centre speaker is connected to an old Onkyo stereo receiver for movie duties.
The short plan to replace the ol Onkyo with another nCore likely with another LPA-S500NC biAmping the centre. Replace the SMSL SU-9n with the Okto. Get the 3 channel audio going and then expand this to 5 or 5.1 by investing in some wireless surround R/L speakers. Before going 5 or 5.1
I'd like to introduce a DSP somewhere in the chain for Room-EQ - this I do not know how to, or what with. I'd love to keep the android phone as the source as this means not investing in a dedicated rig/PC. The question is - does android support multichannel FLAC output to an external DAC ? (in theory it should, but I do not know, I can only try this after the DAC8 Pro is delivered); if this doesnt work, then I would need to build a Linux-HTPC which will double up not only as music source but a movie-source as well. I have no interest in streaming music right now.
Mid/long term (in a year if budget allows) , I'd like to use the same (or atleast part of it) music-setup for movies. Movies don't have to be HiRes and have lower priority, although I'd love to have support for Dolby-Atmos as I plan to introduce a couple of old onkyo book-shelves as height speakers. . For movies, right now, I have an old samsung 3D blue-ray player and a samsung HD TV which I plan to upgrade to 4K. Now, the challenge is to design a setup that makes use of most components that is already used in the music chain.
That said, I do not mind getting my hands dirty, as in I have built a few amps and DACs before (not designed, mind) my soldering skills are OK-ish. Can manage some SMDs as well. I am comfortable with Linux and a wee bit of programming (I need to remove some rust off the old nuerons though) Thanks for all the help.
Again, if this thread needs to be moved to the Okto owners club/thread -> I request the help of Mods to do so.
Kal -> thanks in advance.
in the morning and simultaniously posted here for others. I rechecked in the evening purely for curiosity, if there were any more left and found that they were all sold out.
