Hello,
I'm looking for advice/opinions and experiences with using a USB-Bridge which are sometimes known as DDC (Digital to Digial Converter). I have an urge to try one of these to rescue a purchase blunder and perhaps even to improve what I already have that works well.
The blunder purchase was a Dell Optiplex 7090 mini computer running Jriver MC30 and now Audirivarna Origin. The problem is this sounds rather awful compared to my old (8years) ASUS Xenbook laptop.
I have a theory: the USB on the Dell computer is very noisy and my DAC can't deal with it. The sound comparitively very flat and lifeless and hence fatiguing an un-involving. I presume it's the noise from the computer.
I want to see if a USB-Bridge might fix this by removing/ioslating this noise/effect. I only want to try one, but which one to try is my quandry.
I want to put USB in and get 'clean' USB out, but it seams this may not be possible, I have no idea why these devices don't output to USB.
But I guess I could use I2S or Optical input to the DAC. I find these devices difficult to comprehend, i.e. what they do how and why....I only want a 'clean' digital out (preferrably USB).
Any comments/suggestions will be very useful and much appreciated. Thank you.
Some examples of these devices:
https://hifigo.com/blogs/news/topping-u90-flagship-level-usb-audio-bridge
https://darko.audio/2020/06/allos-usbridge-signature-review/
https://goldensound.audio/2021/08/01/singxer-su6-measurements/
I'm getting a weird feeling while writing this, that I may have asked this before...my apologies if that is the case, I'm getting old.