DCC2 with Hard Drive, Subwoofer?

That's right. The sub cable is a Nordost Bassline and the Y connector is a stock Nordost Bassline Y connector for this kind of application. For what it's worth, EMMLabs recommended this set up to feed a signal to the sub.

RM -- I am in Marin County. Oakland is just across the Richmond San Rafael bridge. It'd be interesting to bring my Apogee Mini-Dac over and A/B it with the
DCC2. The Apogee has XLR outs.

I read it again. I think I get it. Y connector with the Two RCA end going into the DCC2's L & R RCA outs and One RCA end going into the SUBWOOFER, so that the low frequencies from the DCC2's L & R would go to the powered Sub.

Then, XLR's from the DCC2's L & R to your amplifier's L & R channels.

Am I right?

Great info -- out of curiosity, where did you get the Y-connector? Do I understand you correctly to say that it is a balanced interconnect from DCC2 to your amp, but the Y splits off to a single ended interconnect for your subwoofer?

Balanced L/R pre-outs of the DCC2 to my amp, that it.

I had that setup until a few months ago: PC source feeding a DCC2 SE, with my sub being fed from the DCC2. See my living room rig. The key for great sound was using an empirical audio USB-to-AES converter between the PC and DCC2, and having the right setup at the PC end. The sound of a song ripped and played from the PC was indistinguishable from a CD played from my CDSD transport.

I used a Y-connector from the single-ended L/R pre-outs of the DCC2 to a single cable to my sub. And I ran balanced L/R pre-outs to my amp.

If you're thinking about the DCC2, I highly recommend going this route. I haven't heard a better DAC. My only gripe was that it only goes up to 24/96 and I wanted to play higher rez source material. But I may end up going back to the DCC2 because I liked it and haven't seen much 24/192 source material yet.

By Lake Merritt in Oakland.

I'm running XLRs from the DCC2 to a Revel B15 sub and then XLRs from the sub to my main amp.

It's hard for me to get out on a Saturday Night, but I'm going to try to make it on the 25th. I am also using Sonos. Currently, I am using it with an Apogee Mini-Dac, which sounds great. In the same istening room, I also have an Emm Labs DAC6e and SWM3, which I use for special occasion critical listening, but the Sonos/Apogee system sounds so good and is so convenient, like you, I find myself listening to it 99% of the time. I also have a Velodyne DD-15 that I bought for my theater, but I bought it used on Audiogon and it arrived broken and I was in a hurry to get good sound in the theater, so I went out and bought a JL F113 Fathom, which sounds fantastic. Velodyne took care of the DD-15 very quickly and for a reasonable price, so now I am thinking about using it in the listening room. The Sonos ZP-80 doesn't have a sub-woofer output. This all got me thinking that I could sell the Dac6e and SM3, replace it with a DCC2, and simplify my listening room system while taking it to another level and it might be easier to integrate the subwoofer with a Sonos/DCC2 system. What are your thoughts? I'd be glad to come over and listen to your system, that'd be fun and educational, I could get over the motion blur as long as it is in your theater and not mine. :-) Do you live near OB?

I'm using both the EMM transport as well as Sonos. Actually these days I'm using Sonos 99% of the time. Are you going to OB's on 10/25? If so, I'll fill you in at that time. You're also welcome to come over and listen to my system for yourself. I'll even show you some motion blur, er..., RS1, since I know that is one of your favorite video artifacts! -:)

What pieces are included in your Hard Drive/ DCC2 system, how do you like it, what else have you heard and how would you compare your hard drive/DCC2 system to others you've heard. If you also are using a subwoofer with your hard drive/DCC2 system, how did you integrate it, was there any difficulty, etc. That kind of stuff.

I'm doing just that. What is it you'd like to know?