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I know there are so many opinions about the USB options avail to us nowaday. But I'm still not sure that's the best way to go. Personally I have a Asus Xonar Essence PCI-E card that output the SPDIF via coax to my USB mhdt Havana instead of using the DAC's USB, simply because I have some 24/96 files I play. But given all the USB-SPDIF converter nowaday, with good driver and Async transfer, are they better than the Xonar Essence (or any other highend soundcards)? To me with a dedicate WASAPI driver and multi-gigs transfer rate, the soundcard should be better at doing the job. I remember reading Stereophile did some measurement on Xonar Essence, and conclude that it's pretty much bit-perfect itself. So why would anyone spend the extra hundreds on converter. Ok, fire away!

maybe someone can chime in the software/driver comparison of Xonar stx and Claro omega in win7 x64(I believe sonically they're pretty much on par). <br /> Frankly after using asus stuff for so many years, I know they're just not really up there in terms of software, hardware wise they're real good.

guru3d got some interesting bit about the PSU in the st and an add'l clock chip CS2000....saying it's suppose to reduce the already-inaudible jitter...<br /> <a>http://www.guru3d.com/article/asus-xonar-essence-st-deluxe-review/10</a>

That sucks....<br /> Maybe it's the OS... I get tons of problem w/ 7 x64. Is it what you using?

I see from some post that the ST(pci) version has better clock circuit than the STX. <br /> However, reading stereophile mini-review, they say the measurement is better in STX version.<br /> I'm putting it in a silence HTPC, still deciding which one to get.

So MichiGoon, <br /> For the DAC portion, if you compare a CD in Cambridge Audio 840C, vs the same song ripped FLAC into Halide Bridge. That's a big upgrade?? Or is it another DAC that you used before? Just trying to see a comparison.

MichiGoon, what DAC you had before upgrade? It'd be good to see a baseline comparison.

Now not that I have any experience in cryoed components, nor do I truly believe cryo processing in audio hardware having a definitely positive effect. But from the dodson website, they explained abit about this topic. Their DAC is fully treated in that way.<br /> <br /> <cite><br /> Experiments in super-conduction at very cold temperatures (-300 deg. F), which changes a wire's normal resistance into zero resistance and transforms the molecular characteristics of the wire into a super-conductor were achieved years ago. Today it has been found that cryogenically treated audio cables, exhibit improved sonic characteristics. Why does this cryogenic treatment make them sound so much better?<br /> <br /> <cite><br /> The manufacturing process of copper wire and copper sheets causes molecular changes in the copper. When hot copper is pulled through a small hole to form a wire or rolled into thin sheets to make PC boards the stress of being heated and reshaped inadvertently causes crystal lattices and boundaries to be formed, at about 1,000 crystals per foot. Unfortunately, the boundaries formed by this crystal lattice structure impede the natural flow of electrons, causing excessive brightness and a lack of focus in the musical soundstage.<br /> <br /> <cite><br /> When dissimilar metals are joined, crystal boundaries are also formed, similar to those from at copper wire and copper sheet manufacturing. Soldering a resistor lead to a PC board causes stress and more crystals are formed. There are thousands of solder connections and copper crystal boundaries formed in the signal carrying copper layers in each standard assembled PC board.<br /> <cite><br /> The DA-218 processor is cryogenically treated! Cryogenically treating the DA-218 at -300 deg. F., using a special computer controlled process, markedly reduces the crystals that had formed in the copper when the PC board was made or when all the electronic parts were soldered to the PC board

On another note. Would love to see a comparison of top asyn-USB converters vs squeezebox touch/transporter. Those squeezeboxes are rather short in it signal path: basically a custom OS, extract out the FLAC digits straight into digital-out (down-sample into 24/96 if 24/192, which is comparable...), pretty decent clock crystal. Wonder which setup win.

Thank you Chris. <br /> <br /> Of course you have a bel canto lying around in your tool box under the sink for testing...() . Still, if Halide is perform on par with Lynx, what about the Asus Xonar with the latest driver in win7 doing bit-perfect? We never have a onboard cards....no...pure digital transports battle royale (no Dac function). That'd be awesome.

I wonder how this simple implementation would be against the highend non-asyn bridge like the bel canto USB link. Would love to see a comparison.