On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Bearcat M. Şandor <HomeTheater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Folks, > > I'm slowly building a hi-fi surround system around Trends Audio products. They > have a nice, little, stereo usb DAC. I am really only looking at wanting 4 > channels for now. I have something like 8 usb2 ports on this computer so i > have plenty. > > Can i have my player (xine or mplayer or what have you) decode the signal be > it dolby digital, dts, or the blu-ray formats (ha) into channels and then send > (right and left) out of one usb port and (right rear and left rear) out of a > second usb port to a pair of these stereo DACs. I assume if i eventually > wanted an 8 channel system i could so the same thing with more channels? > > Is this feasible? Any drawbacks? > > Also, those Trends Audio TA-10.1 are awesome. > > Thanks. > > > -- > Bearcat M. Şandor > Bearcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Jabber: bearcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > MSN: bearcatsandor@xxxxxxxxxxx > Yahoo: bearcatsandor > AIM: bearcatmsandor Have you thought of buying a decent pci sound card? A PCI solution would mostly likely be better in almost every way. You can choose a level of price quality, and > 8 channel out is easy to find. My echo 3g does that fine, with no arseing around and i would suspect superior sound quality, if not put and DAC you like on the ADAT out... ;) Loki _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
