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Buffalo II

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Ared

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Let me rephrase: Will the buffalo 2 work well using only one 9V transformer + placid power supply + buffalo 2 kit wired together and directly connected to my naim amp? ;)

I'm not rlly a diy-junky, I just want something better than the DacMagic and I lack the money for anything serious.
 
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Yves Smolders

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Hello, scanned this (huge!) thread and hopefully learned all I need to know about the Buffalo II - looks like a beautiful piece of work.

I'm considering using it in the following way:

Squeezebox3 -spdif- Buffalo II -balanced- 2xUCD400

* Squeezebox would do digital volume control (already proven lossless until a certain volume)

* For keeping costs low I would like to run the Buffalo II without Ivy-III (I'll accept the 12db worse thd+n) - is the direct output of the Buffalo OK to drive UCD modules? Their gain is 26db - recommended input impedance is 7 Kohm.

Thanks
 
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MartinC700

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Russ,

Not sure if you are able to answer this due to NDA agreements with ESS, but does the Sabre chip's DSP manipuate clipped signals? One thing the Buffalo is amazing at is handling music that was almost unlistenable on other DAC's, that I had put down to the 'loudness wars' amd digital clipping.

Regards

Martin
 
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jrenkin

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Nikon1975 said:
Looking for the ultimate USB-I2S interface this option was considered, but they want a ridiculous amount of money for the windows driver. No problem for MAC.

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Since I have a Mac, and want I2S out to a Buff II, this costs about the same as a hiface. Any disadvantages, or unsuspected mods necessary? I am not so good with complex digital circuitry...although I can figure out where the I2S out is and jump it.
 
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Russ White

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Yves Smolders said:
Does the Buffalo 2 accept 176.4khz sampling rate over S/PDIF? I would like to use it for PS3 - and this is the rate it outputs when bitmapping CD's and converting SACD to PCM.
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Yes any sample rate up to (and actually slightly beyond) 192/24 can be input via SPDIF

The bummer is that SPDIF only supports up to 24bit data. Not really a big deal though. :)

I have used sample rates up to 384khz 32bit via I2S.
 
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