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RE: In audio or in traditional network rendering?

Best way to isolate the source and the "DAC" is to stream the entire playlist at gigabit speeds to the "DAC", power down the source and the network connection and listen to the music out of memory in the "DAC". This was done a decade ago for CDs with the "Memory Player".

This won't work for some applications, such as streaming from the Internet or studio processes such as sound on sound or editing, but this will eliminate the "source" from the equation. If you are impatient then you had best not do any DSP in the computer or if you do so you had best have a very fast multi-core processor, or you can do your preprocessing off-line and store the results on disk if you have stock in Seagate, Western Digital or Hitachi.


Tony Lauck

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