Just annoyed by hassle of interfacing between pro with consumer gear. Essentially, getting it to work quietly with the amps I already had involved essentially another DIY project.
I'm running the Roland M1000 as the home audio interface to
proaudio and it's working well sonically. This method was recommended
on forums as the Roland provides the digital volume control. I did have
to buy an inline transformer to convert SPDIF to AES/EBU, but it didn't
cost much.
DVD player digital output -> Roland digital input -> Roland digital output -> impedance transformer -> DCX digital input -> amps
I also tried analog pathways using analog crossovers but the
DCX has more features that allowed better tuning to give me better
sound. I also tried the analog paths on the Behringer and Roland
and there is no sonic difference to digital paths.
The Roland is neat. It has one set of analog inputs and four
digital inputs, it's a mixer. I can feed the DVD player analog outputs
into the Roland and ALSO feed the digital output of the DVD player
into the Roland digital input and have the ability to choose which
pathway to use. You can compare analog to digital paths in real time
and I've been switching between the two and can't hear a difference.
I want to do another test where I will add more conversions
to see if the golden ears can detect all these conversions.
I'm going to do this for fun.
DVD player analog out [D/A] -> Roland analog in [A/D] -> Roland
analog out [D/A] -> DCX analog in [A/D} -> DCX analog out [D/A] - amps.
Five conversions, I wonder if the they can pass the blind test.
