Computer to DAC

yogibear · Apr 30, 2007

Is there a way to output a digital signal from a computer's USB hub and send the signal to a DAC? That would be great if I could use my laptop to store all my cds. If this is possible, how is the resulting sound? I know that Wavelength makes a product called the Brick, but it's too expensive and I don't need another DAC.

OOOOPS! I just reposted in the non-ML speaker category.

IWalker · Apr 30, 2007

Use a squeezebox which will take the signal over wireless and can then go out to a dac, or a USB sound card (with a digital out, like the M-Audio Sonica Theater, like I have) which can then connect to a normal dac.

slowGEEZR · May 1, 2007

yogibear said:
Is there a way to output a digital signal from a computer's USB hub and send the signal to a DAC? That would be great if I could use my laptop to store all my cds. If this is possible, how is the resulting sound? I know that Wavelength makes a product called the Brick, but it's too expensive and I don't need another DAC.

OOOOPS! I just reposted in the non-ML speaker category.

I'm going to buy the new PS Audio DAC. It has a USB input and I believe it will automatically upsample, so I'll just connect to the laptop via a USB cable. - Steve

Joey_V · May 2, 2007

slowGEEZR said:
I'm going to buy the new PS Audio DAC. It has a USB input and I believe it will automatically upsample, so I'll just connect to the laptop via a USB cable. - Steve

Welcome to the club!!

Ask Hopeless, Cherian, Wayne, Burke.... and they'll all tell you that the PS Audio DAC is one mean DAC!

slowGEEZR · May 2, 2007

Thanks Joey. Have you tried yours with a PC? That's really all I want it for, to clean up the sound coming from a portable computer to my system. I've got about 500 gigs of tunes now on mybooks and will have a terabyte soon. A lot of the stuff is from records.