Kal Rubinson Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 16 hours ago, Chopin75 said: Do u mind explaining how the USB hub that I presume is split into 3 separate channels? That particularly ingenious method is no longer viable on PCs as described since, as I understand it, the Mytek ASIO driver for this is no longer available for the newer model DACs. OTOH, it can be done with a Mac since MacOS will support the configuration of a virtual multichannel output device. I reported on this in the context of multichannel MQA but the arrangement applies to any format. https://www.stereophile.com/content/music-round-84-multichannel-mqa https://www.stereophile.com/content/music-round-84-multichannel-mqa-multichannel-mqa-again 17 hours ago, Chopin75 said: And is there some clocking issue even with 3 identical DACs? So word clock for all is really needed? Yes, it is necessary with the USB hub methods. I do have another multichannel multiDAC solution up my sleeve and I am working on a report of it now. Kal Rubinson Senior Contributing Editor, Stereophile Link to comment
mansr Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 12 minutes ago, Kal Rubinson said: That particularly ingenious method is no longer viable on PCs as described since, as I understand it, the Mytek ASIO driver for this is no longer available for the newer model DACs. OTOH, it can be done with a Mac since MacOS will support the configuration of a virtual multichannel output device. ALSA on Linux can do that too. You still need the clock sync, of course. Link to comment
bmoura Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 Another option to play Multichannel files is to link multiple Playback Designs Stereo DACs with their USB-XIII. http://www.playbackdesigns.com/#inline_content_Usbx3 Link to comment
Kal Rubinson Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 30 minutes ago, bmoura said: Another option to play Multichannel files is to link multiple Playback Designs Stereo DACs with their USB-XIII. http://www.playbackdesigns.com/#inline_content_Usbx3 Yes, indeed. I reported on it here: https://www.stereophile.com/content/music-round-86-playback-designs-audioquest Kal Rubinson Senior Contributing Editor, Stereophile Link to comment
Chopin75 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 Hi me again, I have been trying to do Mulit-DAC doing 5.1 DSD but Coreaudio in Mac reclock it to PCM. From this thread (sorry too long to read so maybe an answer is there), I see Ted managed to do DSD with 3 DAC. Now it appears ASIO can do native DSD and somehow connects 3 DACs. Now there is this ASIO4all - is this we should use to aggregate 3 devices ? I am not familiar with Win. Someone said Mytec no longer supports ASIO, but I am not using Mytec anyway. Link to comment
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