14 Jan
2009
14 Jan
'09
7:20 p.m.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Bearcat M. Şandor
<HomeTheater(a)feline-soul.com> wrote:
Folks,
I'm slowly building a hi-fi surround system around Trends Audio products. They
have a nice, little, stereo usb DAC. I am really only looking at wanting 4
channels for now. I have something like 8 usb2 ports on this computer so i
have plenty.
Can i have my player (xine or mplayer or what have you) decode the signal be
it dolby digital, dts, or the blu-ray formats (ha) into channels and then send
(right and left) out of one usb port and (right rear and left rear) out of a
second usb port to a pair of these stereo DACs. I assume if i eventually
wanted an 8 channel system i could so the same thing with more channels?
Is this feasible? Any drawbacks?
Also, those Trends Audio TA-10.1 are awesome.
Thanks.
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Have you thought of buying a decent pci sound card? A PCI solution
would mostly likely be better in almost every way.
You can choose a level of price quality, and > 8 channel out is easy
to find. My echo 3g does that fine, with no arseing around and i would
suspect superior sound quality, if not put and DAC you like on the
ADAT out... ;)
Loki