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DAC Connections to streamer?

What’s best connection between streamer and dac - usb, coax, optical?  
Usb can handle dsd but optical doesn’t seem too.  Optical seems limited to 192.  Bandwidth for usb seems far superior vs other connects.  But if using a streamer, seems I can only use optical or coaxial (bluesound) to link streamer and dac.

Do streamers allow a connection of a usb between streamer and dac?  Bluesound doesn’t seem to.
If you use a streamer can you connect to a dac with usb?  


emergingsoul
emergingsoul OP
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Thanks,
Have a chord tt2 dac and only has optical, usb and bnc. Strange no coax.  Can usb cable connect to streamer from the dac? 

Not sure I understand use of usb if not connected to a pc.
djones51
4,947 posts
 
Some streamers have USB out to a DAC. Node2i doesn’t. You can get an adapter for BNC to RCA to use coax if you want.

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=4121
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thyname
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Majority of the good streamers have USB out. Node is not one of them. How much can you afford?
emergingsoul OP
1,316 posts
 
Like idea to use bnc rca female adapter.  Only 1.27 each from mono.  Assume quality not an issue?  Will go nuts and buy 2.

Coaxial bandwidth so much better vs optical.

An Outgoing usb on streamers would be of great value, most like me are so naive about usb connect value between streamer and dac. 

Thanks.
melm
1,085 posts
 
It could very well depend upon the digital input circuits of the DAC.  The best have a USB input that is self powered (not using the 5V from the cable) and have two femto clocks for the families of 44.1K and 48K digital sreams.  Such a circuit should favor a USB input.

That being said, some devices, like the Oppo I use for audio/video, don't have USB outs so spdif or optical is used.  Much to my surprise, I found that an inexpensive Cable Matters Toslink Cable (a Duster recommendation) from Amazon outperformed an expensive all silver spdif cable.  You never know!


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