Paul R
pfm Member
Some facts would help.OK then if we can only deal in pure facts (that is rather boring I have to say, must be fun in the pub...), how many DACs do we know of that use a separate board for the USB? It should be quite a number. I'm not saying this method is purposely used for SQ reasons, mostly it's probably because DACs often use an M2Tech, Adnaco etc board. Can we correlate reportedly good sounding DACs with USB daughter boards? I would post a link to the original posting but as it's on another forum its probably not correct to do so.
Here are some I know....there must be loads more
Metrum Octave and Hex
Caiman II
Ciunas
This discussion might seem pointless for some but it's got to be more useful than much of what's been said today.
You can buy small boards from China with a neat USB implementation to put into your DAC. You would do this because it solves a design problem conveniently rather than for performance per se.
So we need to know if what Beresford has done is simply hacksaw around the USB implementation on his board and use links rather than traces, or whether he has introduced a completely new and possibly rather better USB implementation. Or you could just speculate based on nothing.
Paul