Weiss Minerva Dac

I think there's some bad info above. For example, the RR HRx recordings are 24/176 and they can be fed with a single AES/EBU cable into a DAC such as the Berkeley.

Also, iTunes does support 24-bit word length.

Also, 24/192 is possible via USB 2.0. I don't believe anyone is doing it yet, but Empirical Audio is planning to. Will require two clocks.

If what Drubin says is correct, then USB / Single Digital Cable from Transport to DAC should be possible for 24/192.

Is that so ?

Schwinnindia,

The problem is everyone is only using USB 1.0 until now, as Drubin said Empirical Audio is planing on releasing a DAC with USB 2.0!

ATM USB 1.0 96/24 MAX.

Regards,

Satyam Bachani.

With all due respect, Schwinnindia and some others are absolutely mistaken. As far as the Playback Designs and maybe a few other players and, or DACs, AES/EBU and SPDIF are truly capable of going up to up to 192kHz with a single cable. TOSLINK is limited to 96kHz.

There are some sound cards that support hi-rez output through single AES/EBU or SP/DIF cables. The Lynx AES 16 is one of them. The Playback Designs will receive these hi-res files and recognize the true bandwidth at up to 24 bits. As a matter of fact, it will even convert these files to twice the sample rate of DSD.

We just exhibited at CES / T.H.E. Show playing TRUE 24/192 through a single AES/EBU cable.