Cheap AES transport

Discussion in 'Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers' started by m17xr2b, Apr 22, 2018.

  1. earnmyturns

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    Er, forgive my naïveté, but what about a simple fanless server (like those nice ones from QuietPC in the UK) Ethernet-ed to a low-cost RPi + Pi2 Designs 502DAC, which outputs AES? No fans, no huge power supplies, no gigantic heatsinks. Actually, at work I just use the latter part with a SSD USB drive and an Audiophonics (actually Chinese) LPS to drive my Soekris dac1541>Neurochrome HP-1>Æon Closed rig. But at home I use the nice QuietPC fanless NUC assembly as Roon core. I don't do DSP either place, though. All simple PCM.
     

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