Hi all,

As all of my Music Listening is computer based (for the moment i'm connecting to a Belcanto DAC2 over optical sp/dif via an M-Audio Transit, player being Foobar2k), i was wondering what you would deem the best way to connect my new buffalo32 to a computer.

From my limited understanding:

- Direct connection over Sp/Dif : easy, direct connection to the chip

- AES/EBU: if I understood correctly, this would have to be routed through the MUX board, so it's an additional step before the DAC... altho it does have the balanced noise rejection in the cable... wondering if noise rejection or bypassing the MUX is the bigger advantage

- I2S: Could be done with either the slightly modded Juli@ soundcard, or a small board computers. Then again, i remember reading that there shouldn't be any difference as to how the Sabre32 handles Sp/dif compared to I2S, making this effort useless. Another additional problem would be longer I2S runs, and getting voltage right?

- Wordclock link: Wouldn't be useful, as the buffalo ignores incoming wordclock? What about synching a soundcard like a Lynx to the clock of DAC board instead?


I'm still very new to DIY, so please correct any errors or misconceptions i make in my limited assumptions above :)

What would be your preferable way to hook up the Buffalo to a computer?

Thanks,
Christian

You could always get a Mac with optical out use the Toslink converter, bit perfect output out of iTunes, don't know about Foobar presume it does - thats what I'm using and it's superb..