Picking an amplifier
this one for $872? http://www.tmraudio.com/product/ew-371 I think the Yamaha will be really nice for you, if you get it. I bought both my Krell processor and Oppo player from TMR Audio. They are excellent for service/support of customers. Yeah, don't bother with the daughter card. It's just more DACs and analog outputs that you don't need. |
He's got it on Ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/Yamaha-CX-A5000-11-2-Channel-Preamplifier-Processor-Black/332420837035?hash...
Its the same one. After a couple exchanges, I offered him $825 via Ebay and he didn't get back to me. I might have offended him. Hoping he just left for the day. The market is $600-$850. I can always color up the system with the alternate STX chips. I visited the Audio Ect where I bought the original stuff. They moved to the Mercedes & BMW neighborhood and tacked a zero onto their inventory. Apparently computers keep getting cheaper and audio equipment keeps getting more expensive. |
Think this will do anything for PC->(usb)->DAC quality? https://www.extremetech.com/computing/257905-start-engines-pci-express-4-0-standard-officially-relea... |
Naw, the original PCI interface has more than enough bandwidth to support audio. I have no problems doing 24/192 stereo audio through my old Xonar Essence PCI card. PCI-Express is just overkill and is likely to introduce jitter issues. The crystal clocks and power supply have more to do with audio quality than evolutions in PCI Express. PCI 4.0 will have benefits on graphics cards and stuff like multi-disk RAID controllers where I/O is critical. |
That's what I thought. Audio isn't my specialty. It looks to me like the basic flaw in all these protocols is the failure to embed timing within the protocol. While that would expand the amount of data required & storage requirements at the pit stops, it would put a stop to timing problems. It's an artifact of when data storage was e.x.p.e.n.s.i.v.e. |
