In Reply to: Cheapest possible solution posted by Christine Tham on February 20, 2007 at 22:53:32:
I have a Juli@ in one of my systems and it works quite well. It actually has a native ASIO driver which seems to work rock solid with Jriver. ESI has even released a Vista driver so you should be fine whatever OS you are choosing.Compared to the Maudio DIO24/96 in my main system there are a few minor quibbles.
- It only supports sample rates of 44.1Khz and up. That means you can't listen to many clips from the WEB.
- You can not control the output volume of the S/PDIF output. Not a problem if you only plan to go to a DA10 but can be limiting for other uses.
- If you plan to route system sounds and you music playback to the same card then the ASIO output cuts out while system sounds are playing. On the M-audio the sounds get mixed preserving the bit-perfect property if only the ASIO stream is playing. I have system sounds configured to go to a different card on thr system with the Juli@.
The DA10 is a nice DAC.
Cheers
Thomas
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Follow Ups
- Re: Cheapest possible solution - ThomasPf 01:49:34 02/21/07 (8)
- Thanks Thomas - what digital out are you using off your Juli@? - dave in gva 02:13:18 02/21/07 (7)
- Re: Thanks Thomas - what digital out are you using off your Juli@? - ThomasPf 10:55:18 02/21/07 (0)
- Re: Thanks Thomas - what digital out are you using off your Juli@? - Jim F. 07:45:57 02/21/07 (5)
- Long runs are a good idea - Christine Tham 10:30:05 02/21/07 (4)
- A short run is all I need but I like the electrical disconnect advantage anyway - dave in gva 11:02:59 02/21/07 (3)
- Here's a crazy idea - Christine Tham 12:05:31 02/21/07 (2)
- Thanks will give it some thought.....whats X10 (nt)? - dave in gva 19:54:14 02/22/07 (1)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard) - Christine Tham 20:41:03 02/22/07 (0)