michaelhigh
mind's eye music
Petty sounds amazing in lossless (and in high def!)...
I have one of these arriving this week, the $199 was very tempting.
My mini mac has a bug where the HDMI cable adds noise to my headphone jack, a noticeable aggravating static that is then transferred to my receiver. Found a few obscure references to it online trying to trouble shoot it and sure enough as soon as the HDMI is unplugged the noise disappears. But then so does my monitor
Anyhoo, this Emotiva using USB is supposed to completely bypass my mac sound card and send the pure data transfer to the Emotiva (as I understand it) so I think this should eliminate my problem. Will come back with an update later this week.
or by using an Optical Digital cable with a Mini Jack on one end it will send a Digital signal to the DAC directly bypassing the Mini sound card.
Actually I think it will be more capable in your case trying it this way as opposed to the USB connection.
Ahh, very interesting, thank you ! I'd rather go that route if just to free up the usb port. So I can buy a cable with optical digital on one end and mini-jack on the other ? And my mini will know to bypass the soundcard when this is plugged in ?
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