I think Erik was on to something because I put my thumb drive to a cable and into my DAC and nothing.I thought I had remembered a reviewer using thumb drives and thought that would be a great way to maybe to take out a little distortion/jitter by passing my transport. But it looks like i might need to get a computer involved to make a thumb drive work, which I am to lazy to do right now. Thanks for the feedback.
thumb drive for source?
I was wondering if I could use a thumb drive with recorded music by just plugging in it into my sim audio moon 300dv2 dac? I would like to try it to see how it compares with my transport to dac combo. So I was wondering if it was possible or do I need to add something to try it? I am sure the challenge may be not controlling the music on it remotely but that is ok in a test to me. This seems like kind of an inexpensive way to test the waters of a different source other than vinyl or cd disc. Thanks for any helpful input.
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Hi cd318 thanks. That was my thinking about doing this. I have heard it can be an improvement without all the stuff that goes on from the transport to the dac. My cd transport is a Theta Pearl which is quite old but never had any problems at all. It has that stable platter. But I thought maybe I might get some type of improvement worth going in a different direction for my source. Just thinking outside the box I guess. |
I broke down and looked it up. Why do you think that a USB A out drive can plug into a USB B input? Not gonna work w/o a player. Can be done with a $60 add on. But I fear not by you. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BC7BMHY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_sX64FbVY22AB5 |
I’ve been using USB flash drives for years. The latest iteration is USB 3.0 but not all devices will support that. I can’t say whether they sound any better than CD but I also can’t imagine any reason why they wouldn't. Surely, without any moving parts involved, they must be at a technical, if not any perceptibly sonic advantage. |