Da pluto Lun Feb 08 2021, 11:39
Si mi pare di capire che x un uso flat DAC-MAC sia meglio rimanere sulla USB
Mentre aggiungendo lo streamer Rockna....la solfa cambia
But it’s more expensive to get into and ultimately less flexible, you can’t add new streaming services to an audio streamer but you can do anything with a PC. Rockna takes this second approach but builds its own version of a PC in the Wavedream Net, this doesn’t look or act like a computer in the normal sense but it runs software designed for that platform, Roon, and can be controlled by the same application on a tablet. It doesn’t however send out signal via USB, rather Rockna’s creator has followed where a few others have lead and used an HDMI output that’s dedicated to its Wavedream DAC. The Net has conventional digital outputs including coaxial and AES/EBU but its designer Nicolae Jitariu included the HDMI option because it allows the Net to transmit an 12S signal directly to the DAC.
I2S is the form that digital signals are in when they being processed within a digital audio component, be it a CD player or a DAC, a form that has to be converted to PCM or DSD in order to be transmitted via the traditional digital connections (coax, optical etc). By eliminating the conversion at both ends of a digital connection this approach should mean a more transparent link.
The Wavedream Net (above) can be purchased with an onboard SSD drive for music storage but has a separate SSD to provide memory based playback buffer, which isolates this crucial stage from the relatively noisy character of a hard drive. It can stream material stored on external drives as well and has both USB and network connections to hook them up. And it can deal with pretty big numbers in terms of high res files, PCM up to 32/384 and quad DSD, eg 11.28MHz, and this can be transmitted natively over the HD-Link HDMI connection. Just to complete the picture the Wavedream Net is also a CD player with a front panel loading tray, not something you find on many, if any conventional audio servers although Melcos allow this with a separate drive.
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Lalo ma il presupposto di cui parlava il recensore non era il peggioramento del segnale o meglio il "non peggioramento". Lui parlava di miles away rispetto alla connessione USB.
Purtroppo non spiegava come è stata realizzata o se ha provato il WAVELIGHT con uno Streamer Rockna....