In the last episode we saw how to use an appropriate media player allows you to have a digital source of all respect.
In addition, we could say that, with high definition audio, the source is divided into two parts, one part in a fully digital and analog.
The digital source requires an HD screen, big or small, but larger than the classic display of a CD player. It must take into account that usually the music will be organized in a directory tree similar to files on a PC. With the media player, therefore, we must then support the TV monitor. In Alternatively, the modern notebook is quiet enough to be included in a hi-fi, always a fan that does not begin suddenly, or it comes to HTPC.
In the absence of this, the wi-fi allows you to access shared files on a computer or NAS located in a room away from the listening position. I would add that the tests I've done, the transfer rate of a wi-fi "G" is more than enough to ensure a continuous flow of data to the media center; certainly a network "N" is better from all points of view. I also noticed how clients wi-fi "NO" to behave better than the client "G" in G networks, but should do the appropriate tests, but for now they are feeling.
Alternatively you can use a pair of ethernet adapters-mains.
The analog source is the DAC itself, capable of generating an analog signal in front of a synchronous digital input in practice what is downstream of classical or even coaxial or Toslink AES / EBU.
hi-fi The market is still moving. Within the wi-fi media player available rather expensive, but are independent of the PC.
I recently found a nice DAC Cambridge Audio, the DacMagic that the latest version is packed with digital connectivity and features that rivals much more expensive units. Certainly it is unlikely that Convenga change the DAC to those who already have, especially if of high birth, I still take it into consideration, if only for connectivity, for direct input from USB, and the lights that indicate the type of stream input :-). The presence of balanced outputs is a major plus for those with pre corresponding revenue.
The "limit", limit if you can talk, is the entrance to 96 Khz to 192 Khz instead, as failure to set the standard DVD-Audio. The current fashion
provides small drives attached directly to a USB port on your computer. I find a solution that will almost certainly add to the low quality aesthetics and ergonomics very questionable. The ideal would be media server, but now almost all are designed for video applications, where the audio is very neglected. If nothing else, the latest generation video standards include the audio up to 24/192, then the side effect most of the media player should be sent to the digital HD Audio LPCM, the audio is converted to analog HD through the stereo outputs, with the ultimate solution, however we must be content with an internal DAC certainly not high level, thus inherently inconsistent with the purposes that should have the HD audio.
The only media player does not explicitly mid-high range and which have come to know what the range is Sonos, which, however, lacks the essential requirement to support high-definition audio.
But then there is a universal player? In theory, yes, and good old PC. For example, a simple laptop with Intel High Definition Audio chipset supports virtually any audio and video source. The problem is obviously in the process of conversion, as the PC environment is so constructed electrically very noisy and not equipped with first class components and circuitry, as would be required in the audiophile field (otherwise the HD stream, what should we ?).
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