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Thanks Chris! Yes a perfect solution except price. I was hoping to keep it under $1000. Considering what the Arvus H1-D does the pricing seems a bit steep to me. Hopefully something more cost effective pops up. Please keep the suggestions coming. Edit: Looking closer at the Arvus H1-D it is capable to 16 channels with remote control. I was hoping to find 2 channel bare bones (no remote) converter for my application.

Thanks Chris! Yes a perfect solution except price. I was hoping to keep it under $1000. Considering what the Arvus H1-D does the pricing seems a bit steep to me. Hopefully something more cost effective pops up. Please keep the suggestions coming.

Hi, I'm hoping someone out there has a solution. I've been streaming audio to Bricasti M1 SE network DAC for a few years now. I've gone the whole journey optimizing the network. Network audio is the way to go for audio in my opinion. That's all fine for most common music sources via computer, server streams and music via Qobuz etc. I currently use Bubble UPNP as controller and MinimServer 2 as local server (dedicated fanless computer) with the DAC Bricasti as renderer. I'm moving towards room correction with multichannel DAC still via wired ethernet/network audio with renderer built into the DAC. I'm leaning towards some combination of Roon or HQPlayer or possibly Audirvana to introduce the required convolutions. The problem is getting my TV audio into the Network stream. It's easy to get the audio into the DAC without room correction, just run optical out into the DAC. Harder once convolutions and digital crossovers have been applied through software. So I naively purchased a used Cambridge 851 N network player to bridge that gap because it offered optical inputs. It also has a built in DAC which was not needed and I hadn't planned to use the DAC. Suprise! Optical input only goes to the internal DAC: not able to be served up on the Network with UPNP/DLNA protocol. There must be any easy answer to this kind of issue but I haven't found it. Google it and you'll get thousands of solutions to get network audio stream TO your smart TV, not out. I realize most folks use AV Reciever and 2 channel preamps with pass through etc. I've been down that road too. Something like 7.1 cinema doesn't really interest me. I enjoy movies with a great 2.1 channel system just fine thanks. Thanks in advance for any responses.

Yamamoto, Thanks agian for all your help. Dtune

Thx Yamamoto, This definitely does help. All works now. I had no idea "buffer" and "latency' were the same thing. All files can be played below 0.07 seconds. Can you take a shot at explaining exactly what is adjusted when you lower latency? My system sound great - thanks again. Dale.

Hi Yamamoto, and thanks for your help. So how do i go about adjusting output latency in J River? Dtune

PS, over at JRiver support they say Lynx SC is meant to work with ASIO, and driver doesn't fully support WASAPI, kernal streaming etc. I find that difficult to believe.

Chris, In wasapi - yes. MC says to lower sampling rate to 48 kb/s. MC says that the sound card may not support the sampling rate and format selected. It gives me the choice to cancel or change settings automatically. When I look at the seting MC has chosen (after resuming playback)it has reset O/P to 48/16. The message changes when I manually change the sampling rate in the lynx driver to match the MC output, but the outcome is the same - MC will not play the HD file. When I switch to ASIO, everything works exactly as it should, the sampling rate changes to match the content in the audio file every time. Dale

I am using the familiar combo - Jriver 16, Lynx AES16 and Alpha dac. Wasapi works fine unless sampling rate is greater than 48 kb/s. With sampling rates above 48 kb/s music files will not play. The only output format that works to change sampling rates on the fly is ASIO. Asio works fine but I am concerned Wasapi is inherently better sounding format. Any advise to somehow get Lynx to work with Wasapi at all sampling rates up to 192 kb/s would be greatly appreciated. I have tried changing sampling rates in the Lynx driver to match the sampling rate output by Jriver to no avail. I am running Windows 7 pro 32 bit OS. Thx