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In Reply to: A more serious answer... posted by Presto on March 20, 2008 at 22:42:23:
"I have had no luck with TOSLINK. My current favorite digital out is a Coax SPDIF out of an M-Audio Revolution 7.1 using kernel streaming. Some swear by TOSLINK, others USB and some (who often remain quiet these days) are getting good results with Coax SPDIF or AES/EBU."
By having no luck, do you mean the sound quality was inferior to the other methods you have tried? Side by side, I prefer SPDIF coax to SPDIF toslink. But toslink, for me, allows me to avoid any possibility of an electrical connection to the audio gear. My reclocker takes in the toslink and outputs coax, which is fed directly to the DAC.
"Turn off all unecessary Windows bling (basically XP is just Windows 2000 interface with themes, and fancy effects that can ALL be turned off. If XP does not look like Windows 2000, you're wasting resources."
Very true. My audio PC runs 2000 Pro, But I have other machines running XP Home and XP Pro. I prefer the cleaner style of Windows 2000.
"Even on XP 1GB is a good place to start. But Vista? 2 or 3 just to run all of that "Wanna-be-Mac" visual bling that just eats up resources."
Good point. I wasn't considering Vista, as I do not run it yet. But I understand completely the nature of windows, and I suspect Vista wouldn't be happy with less than 2 gig.
My audio PC is not dedicated to audio. It serves up the internet to three other PC's. It is loaded with games, even though it is not often used for gaming. It is my print server, and gets used often for internet surfing and homework by kids. All this while serving up the audio; and I have never heard so much as a hiccup. The key is a separate audio device (sound card) for the audio server function. All audio is routed to the default windows sound device, while J River has the EMU 1212M ASIO selected as its output device. In so far as not having 'heard so much as a hiccup' in the thousands of hours I have been listening, what I know about PC's tells me that I would have no such luck with USB or firewire or wireless. Windows is a multi-tasking OS, but processes can conflict for resources.
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