[LAU] 384kHz DAC - Monolith USB?

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Tue Apr 3 14:01:33 CEST 2018


the ADAT protocol has done done this a couple of decades.

i fail to see the benefit over a straightforward design with as many
channels as you actually want.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Chris Chronopoulos <
chronopoulos.chris at gmail.com> wrote:

> controversial claims by audiophiles notwithstanding... i'm somewhat
> interested in high-samplerate DAC's for the possibility of time domain
> multiplexing of multiple channels. 2 channels @ 384 kHz = 16 channels @ 48
> kHz if you had a driver + external hardware to do the muxing/demuxing. of
> course you'd need some sort of "word select" embedded in the signal -
> perhaps you could do this with GPIO, or maybe use part of the 32 bits
> samples as metadata. wouldn't be easy, but i wonder if it's possible.
> anyway the first step would be getting a DAC like this to work with the
> host at these high sample rates, so if anyone has experience with that, i'd
> be curious to know.
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:10 PM, David W. Jones <gnome at hawaii.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On April 2, 2018 2:29:36 PM HST, Brent Busby <brent at keycorner.org> wrote:
>> > At my age, I fondly remember the days when I could hear up to
>> > 384kHz...
>> > Now bats and dolphins think I'm pretty ordinary.
>>
>> I think my hearing dies at about 12-15K and has for decades now. Bats and
>> dolphins ignore me entirely.
>>
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