tubesguy

So limited to 192k, and no DSD?

It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. On another XMOS interface that I have (the JLSounds) that type of chip is the firmware chip, and reprogamming it is how you update the firmware. This seller seems to be suggesting that that is not the case here, and instead that it is only a chip used to store the driver. Then, of course, there is the fact that it seems not to work. Kind of a headscratcher, no?

Pulse folks: If you have been overwhelmed by the deluge of info from Geek and have tuned out, let me pass on one tidbit of info to you. To have your Pulse actually shipped to you, you have to go back to the survey and take the action of opting out of the option to upgrade to the Soul. Yes, if you think you can just sit back and wait for the UPS man to arrive, you are mistaken. That said, this appears to be the last of the confirmation steps and there appears to be light at the end of the tunnel.

Still confused over this "over S/PDIF" issue, especially since the original poster referred to his dCS. He appears to have a Debussy, and the dCS site (as of today) shows DoP over USB, but not over S/PDIF and shows the latter limited to 96k PCM. Why does the Touch (assuming with the EDO mod) have to output the DoP via S/PDIF? It can output, with the mod, up to 192k via that method or via USB, thus it can convey the 176k output of this process either way. What device, the Touch or the following DAC, imposes the requirement that the signal out of the Touch, using this process, be via S/PDIF? TIA - Pat

Hmm, I must have missed this info earlier in the thread, but for the life of me I see no prior reference to this requirement. Is this because of the LUMIN association of the authors of this nice little piece of code? This may leave me out of the party, based on my Amanero USB/Buffalo DAC combo.

Any luck, firedog and obscured? I've got some DSD rips of SACDs that I own on their way to me, and my first choice for playback would still be the Touch. I did find a post about this on the Squeezebox forum, but no real firestorm of interest followed.

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I have an "old" 32S, do I'd have to go the Arduino route, but it's nice to see that the TP boys have made allowance for more customizing in the latest Buffs.

Would one turn off the filter using something fairly simple, via I2C, or would this be something that the average home DIY guy would be unlikely to be able to accomplish? I've become interested in the idea of upsampling via software and using a NOS DAC, but I also have a Buffalo DAC available. TIA - Pat

Has information about this been posted at the Squeezebox forum? I've searched a bit (the search function over there has been poor for me) and found nothing. Using my Touch with triode's mod would be my preferred way to proceed with DSD files. May I assume that you are doing the conversion to FLAC offline, as it were, and creating new files that you are then adding to your current LMS library?