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  1. Curious........ I will be feeding digital signal to my DAC, that’s why I hate spending money on soundcards with onboard dacs I have my regular computer hooked up to my DAC via Toslink atm. via the onboard optical on the motherboard, the sound is pretty ok, but I'm sure i can do alot better on a dedicated system. so far my planed system is the new atom dual board D510 http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=43098 Juli@ soundcard 4 gigs ram on a Windows 7 64 machine ( need the 64bit to utilize 4 gigs) a 30 gig ssd I have around for the OS, a 1.5g greenpower2 WD HD a linear power supply to feed the system along with a pico PSU http://www.itemaudio.co.uk/item_power_supply.html Worst part is trying to locate some heatpipes, cant believe nobody sells them to consumers. I have a beautiful rosewood HK Citation 12 deluxe cabinet im building it into. Guess I’ll just try both the toslink and the coax S/SPDIF and maybe even the USB to try and see if I can hear any difference.
  2. thanks again for all the enlightning inputs. I'm sure a nux version would be great, problem is the endless hours of tweakin, and getting drivers to work. but the biggest objection I have to linux, is that my wife need to be able to control it. But i guess i could allways install a Sonos on top of it all any particular linux distros you would recomend? as i understant it the juli@ card has linux drivers, that removes one of the biggest hurdles
  3. Thanks for clearing that up.. so if I'm understanding you right, differences between the two interfaces is very small, close to theoretical for server purposes. Its allways hard to cut through all the snake oil, in the hifi industry, and the different ardent followers of this and that philosophy. I will never be a huge fan of the Asus soundcard either, for the same reasons you mention. MY dac has all the interfaces needed toslink, S/pdif and XLR. As i understand it most people seem to agree that S/pdif yeilds a better result then optical for some reason. If I hadent read all those preferences for S/pdif i would logically think that pure optical would be better since it has no ability to transport noise, like a metal cable. Guess ill give the julie@ a go.
  4. yea.. I do mean digital.. looks interesting.. thanks.. And your right.. It really is a quest.. prices i found is around 3-400£ seems like that the range for Balanced digital output. I guess i could go with the digital S/pdif og optical, but balanced just seem like sutch a great ideer when having to do with computers, because of the ground/shield. I looked closer at Marian cards and they actually have a no nonsence card that only does what we need it to do.. http://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Marian-Marc-A-ADAT-Audio-interface/7RB problem is it uses ADAT, and thats 8 channels. If only one could finde something like this, but with a more household interface I like stuff that only does what i need it to do.. smallest model with balanced outs http://www.marian.de/en/products/trace_pro
  5. Hi Eloise.. Thx for pointing that out.. The RME sure looks nice as well, though the price range is not that far from the lynx. Thing that really bothers me with buying these cards is that I'm paying allot of money for things I will never have any use for. I (and I suspect most users here) will never utilize 90 % of all the things cards like that are designed to do in a studio. Been trying to scan more studio/broadcasting equiptment to se if i could find a more specific card. I’m guessing something that just puts out digital audio with low latency, noise etc. in a suitable format. No luck so far, and honestly its easy to get lost in the overly tech-tongue of some of those sites
  6. Hey guys.. debating (with my self ;)what soundcard to get for my server, and since i find the Lynx card way to pricy in europe, i've setteled between the asus Xonar and the juli@ http://www.esi-audio.com/products/julia/ The juli@ has (as opposed to the asus) optical and more importantly (imo) balanced outputs, and since my Dac has XLR that would be pretty nice bonus. pros for the asus, is the shielding i guess, sonics is hard to really know, they both have had great reviews. and you never really know if you can trust (sponsored) reviews. any inputs would be greatly appriciated.
  7. Dear Chris.<br /> <br /> If you really want to test your opinion of the magico speakers against a truly innovative speaker, you should try the Eclipse TD712zMK2 with their woffer. <br /> <br /> http://www.eclipse-td.net/products/td712zmk2/index.html<br /> <br /> <br /> This has to be the most innovative, and groundbreaking speaker design to date. <br /> <br /> Even though the magicos cabinets are made in a different material , its still the same classic cabinet setup that been in use for the last 50 years tho?<br /> <br /> With absolutely no resonances, and that fastest response in any speaker ever created, I doubt that they can compete with the Eclipse. <br /> Only downside to these speakers is that they will reveal with painful clarity any faults and hiccups in the entire audio cycle from the recording studio to your own setup. I know that a great deal of recoding studios use these as monitors. While they might not have the esoteric “musicality” that some audiophiles claim to hear, they play everything with a precession that is unheard off. They are also pretty picky about the listening position, for the very same reason.<br /> <br /> I really urge you to try out these groundbreaking speakerdesigns before you give the throne to a pair of speakers with an interesting ideer for new materials for sure , but honestly a very basic design.<br /> <br /> but thanks for a great job non the less..<br />
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