Going digital all the way up to the amps?

[buggsson 10+ year member]

I would like to know if there is a solution out there for having a digital player play lossless or uncompressed files into a HU and then trugh a processor in the digital domain, and then enter the amps as analog? I figure that would be enough to go digital to the amps, because I intend to use AB amps for comps and tweets, and a digital amp for the sub. And I will go 2-way active.

All this is for I just would like to know if there would be a better way than having to use the DACs of the iPod.

Edit: As no replies as yet, I might add that what I want is a digital player that can play lossless or uncompressed, and connect digitally or optically with a HU that takes digital or optical in, processor might be the Bit-1 as it has both optical and S/PDIF in.

I heard of Chronos 7 and a Naka HU, but that is way over what I can fork out for this.

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[buggsson 10+ year member]

No one has a solution for going digital from player to a processor? I've been looking all over but found nothing, is the Chronos solution all there is? Processor preferably Audison Bit One that seems to be very nice indeed.

 

[buggsson 10+ year member]

I'll BUMP this for the last time, and refrase the question a bit.

Now I would like to know if you know of any digital media player that supports lossless and/or uncompressed music files and that have excellent DAC, and have either S/PDIF or coaxial out and USB or FW?

My plan is to connect such a device to an Audison Bit One.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

How in-depth do you want to get? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif If you've got a lot of time, you could configure a carPC with an external DAC - there's proponents of XP for audio, Vista, Mac, and all sorts of technical voodoo you can get into with drivers and such. But regardless of which path you take, a computer with a quality DAC will allow you to have lossless bit-perfect playback, with pretty much any output connection you could want...SPDIF, dig. coax, even optical.

 

[speedfreak28 10+ year member]

How in-depth do you want to get? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif If you've got a lot of time, you could configure a carPC with an external DAC - there's proponents of XP for audio, Vista, Mac, and all sorts of technical voodoo you can get into with drivers and such. But regardless of which path you take, a computer with a quality DAC will allow you to have lossless bit-perfect playback, with pretty much any output connection you could want...SPDIF, dig. coax, even optical.

interesting, so bascially you can handle all of your audio processing through a good carputer?

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

interesting, so bascially you can handle all of your audio processing through a good carputer?

It could all be done in software if you wanted to. I'd imagine it's not as attractive of an option for many because there isn't a neat package for it yet...you've got to cobble it together yourself.

 

[speedfreak28 10+ year member]

interesting, id love to attemp it but I have enough problems with my 9887 and dqx:crazy:

 

[buggsson 10+ year member]

How in-depth do you want to get? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif If you've got a lot of time, you could configure a carPC with an external DAC - there's proponents of XP for audio, Vista, Mac, and all sorts of technical voodoo you can get into with drivers and such. But regardless of which path you take, a computer with a quality DAC will allow you to have lossless bit-perfect playback, with pretty much any output connection you could want...SPDIF, dig. coax, even optical.

Well, time will be plenty when the new year kicks in when I will be jobless, but I might not want to be that deep into it. What has been on my mind though, is using an older Mac Powerbook that I have laying around. I was thinking you might be able to connect an external drive and a PCMCIA card with either optical or coaxial out to a Audison Bit One compressor.

I've also looked at the following two media players, that I think might be possible to directly connect to the Bit One, I'm in the process to investigate these options at the moment. I think especially the DVP-260 migth be viable, as it has a car connection kit as an assessory kit you can buy with it.

Links:

http://hantech.ca/product/product_detail.asp?cateid=00020001

http://www.sarotech.com/english/product/dvp-260s.html#top4