Firewire DACs?

Cerrot,

Thank you for your kind words. And my goodness, talk about a beautiful system! The only thing more beautiful than the view of your system is your view of "the view".

M-Audio makes a firewire 410 that you can still get for around 300.00. They also make a new 600 model that costs around 400.00 retail. For the money both of these interfaces/DAC's have excellent sound quality. Obviously, you can do better but it will cost much, much more.

These both have 8 analog outs too so you could do multichannel out or even active crossovers.

check out this site:

http://www.home-speaker.net/diyhometheaterspeaker.html

If you read down through that page it eventually discusses firewire DACs. It works really well. This is the type of setup I use with active digital crossovers. That site helped me do it.

mikal

I forgot here's a link to that interface/DAC.

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/ProFire610.html

hope this helps!

mikal

Can somebody give me some impressions on the older dCS DACs using Firewire (Delius, Elgar)?
best regards
André

I've been listening to the Weiss DAC202, a Firewire DAC. It sounds amazing. I don't have any listening experience with other Firewire DACs, so can't really make any comparisons. You would not be disappointed with the 202, though.