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PC/stereo setup and/or cable question

My PC resides approximately 30 feet from my stereo setup. I currently run a 30' USB repeater cable from my PC to my Chord DAC. The 30' cable is not ideal, and there are no good options for upgraded USB cables in that length.

I'm trying to find out if I can use an ethernet cable, convert to USB near the DAC, and use a short USB into the DAC.
OR, if there's another option I could use to achieve using a short USB cable.

My setup is as follows: NAS>ehternet cable>PC>USB cable>DAC>interconnects>amp.

I tried a Bluesound streamer, but wasn't a fan of the sound.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

chrisg1000

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I think your best bet is to get a dedicated transport and place it next to the DAC, for example, allo usbbridge or a hifiberry device. Of course, this depends on your source, if you only play local files from you NAS it's a good approach. If you want to use a streaming service Roon is an easy option to run on the transport.

If you PC runs Linux you can use setup pulse locally to use a remote transport as sound device and all your PC sound would end up there.

If you run Windows I have no experience, but I believe JACK is able to with ASIO bridge on a win box.

In short, I think buying a raspi is the cheapest and best way of not using a long cable. :-)
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