Poll on your primary digital interconnect

[Jukka]

Primary as in most frequently used. Both business and pleasure. If your chain involves many interconnects (like handheld --> wlan --> lan --> dac), pick the one that's closest to the source. Internet sourcers, like streamers, are for after the streaming box, no phone lines or wlan before it. "One-box" means that there are no interconnects between boxes, just internal connects and analog out.

Looking at this forum I predict USB is a clear winner. Business users might disagree. But it's 2020 and life is full of surprises!

 

[DonH56]

HDMI from my Oppo used the most, followed by SPDIF optical from my SONOS Connect. Which connects wirelessly to my router, which is then wired via Ethernet to my NAS for music storage. I have no idea how to vote.

 

[Jimbob54]

Roon on Laptop to Cambridge audio CXN V2 via homeplug/ ethernet. Everything else goes off the CXN either analog or digital to other DACs

 

[dfuller]

USB, but I'm considering getting a PCIe card with AES.

 

[sergeauckland]

WiFi between router and PC running LMS, WiFi to Squeezebox Touch, analogue for the rest of system.
One short AES-EBU link between DEQ2496 and DCX2496.

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[Trouble Maker]

Home, no digital interconnects, one box.

2 systems are KEF LS50W and NAD C338→Zu Omen Dirty Weekends. I primarily stream (Spotify) directly to them.

Work is USB→Schitt Modi →Vali→AT ATH-M50x.

I consider work a secondary system as are my preference for headphones, but necessary at work. So I voted one box. The KEFs are about as one box as you can get and I love that about them.

 

[HemiRick]

ethernet to Rasp PI3+ w Allo boss, then analog into AVR.

 

[Silver1omo]

"Main" is wireless to raspberry PI 3b+ with hifiberry DAC-- analog to cheap amp.
Desktop is Ethernet to raspberry b+ rev 2 -- USB to D10 -- analog to O2.

 

[MakeMineVinyl]

Just USB to my OPPO Sonica DAC. Had to go through a couple brands though because I had dropout issues from my PC while playing DSD files. Still not using anything special though.

 

[rgpit]

Ethernet to Raspberry pi which outputs USB to DAC

 

[Jukka]

HDMI from my Oppo used the most, followed by SPDIF optical from my SONOS Connect. Which connects wirelessly to my router, which is then wired via Ethernet to my NAS for music storage. I have no idea how to vote.

Well you've got complex system for sure! Just pick the one that you feel is the most important.

I added HDMI to options.

 

[North_Sky]

1. HDMI (I got many of those, by a mile)

2. USB (lots of them too)
3. SPDIF Coaxial

 

[pozz]

HDMI from laptop to TV, optical from TV to DAC, for movies. USB from laptop to DAC for the DAW.

 

[valerianf]

HDMI from Roku box or ARC from Tv in app.
Come on, music and movies are streaming from Internet in the XXI century.
For sure a high bandwidth Internet connection is mandatory.
HDMI is also coming from the BR reader.