Hi all, Just getting into the whole HiRez audio via the PC road and of course I am looking strongly at JRiver to drive the bus. Who wouldn't :-)
Here is what I have at the moment
Windows 7
Motherboard EX58-UD3R
CPU i7 - 920@2.67ghz
3 x 2gb RAM
2 x 600gb HDD
Nividia Geforce GTX260
Realtek HD Audio 7.1 It handles everything up to 24/192
http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/productsView.aspx?Langid=1&PFid=28&Level=5&Conn=4&ProdID=135Generally I listen to all music in Stereo 'Direct' mode. I have L, R and Centre speakers but the Centre is for TV/Movie/Divx viewing or DTS Music videos from time to time.
I use a hard wired Popcorn Hour 110 (No hard drive) to get any format of video from the PC to the TV & Amp. The Popcorn will play audio but I use the Toslink direct to the Amp.
I currently run a toslink (Non glass) 10 metres from the PC to the Yamaha RX-v1900 HT 6.1 that I use as a preamp for a 5 Ch power amp (140 x 5) The Yamaha is fitted with the 24/192 Burr-Brown PCM-1791 DAC's
At the moment I use Cowon MC (99%) or VLC to play any audio via the toslink. 300 gig of Digital music is 80% 16/44.1 flac with some 24/96 flac stuff.
So having set the scene here are my questions. Bare with me if I am confused here because 2 weeks of research has my head spinning ;-P
If I instal JRiver and set it up to run bit perfect it is best if I use ASIO or WASAPI Event. By setting either of these I take it the audio data will bypass the PC DAC and Realtek HD Audio and head straight down the toslink to the Yamaha amp where the Amps DAC's with do their thing and give me sound.
Do I have this right?
If the answer is Yes, then if I get a CI Audio VDA2 dac (In the future) the audio data will go direct, bit perfect, to the VDA2 via the toslink and then on to Nirvana. For argument sake I'm not going down the USB/DAC route just yet.
My aim is simply to get the audio data in its purest form to the Amps DAC's at this stage.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Regards Cazzesman
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