Naim DAC USB input
Posted by: Fred Mulder on 09 April 2010
Hi Guys,
I'm wondering,
When it's no problem to select songs via USB by using a laptop, phone, IPad in a room; why bother with steamers, expensive coax cables, ..
Or did I overlook something?
Only thing I can think of is limited storage space, although this is just a matter of time before the constant improving capacity/size/heat passes the sufficient mark.
Kind regards, Fred
I'm wondering,
When it's no problem to select songs via USB by using a laptop, phone, IPad in a room; why bother with steamers, expensive coax cables, ..
Or did I overlook something?
Only thing I can think of is limited storage space, although this is just a matter of time before the constant improving capacity/size/heat passes the sufficient mark.
Kind regards, Fred
quote:Originally posted by Salmon Dave:quote:Originally posted by Aleg:quote:Originally posted by ken c:
john r. many thanks.
ferenc, grounding on my dac is set to floating because i have a cdx2.2 connected. but what you say seems to be consistent with my setup, although floating is the correct setting. so why does that vary with usb sticks as john r. implies?
enjoy
ken
Ken
Do you have the CDX2.2 connected to the pre-amp or to the nDAC?
If to nDAC then grounding of nDAC should be chassis.
If to pre-amp then grounding of nDAC should be floating.
Just thought to mention it
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aleg
Actually Aleg, what the manual states is that the switch should be chassis unless the system contains (= is 'incorporating') another earthed source component (could be tuner, DVD player etc presumably). As many (most?) systems would have another earthed source component, the setting would usually be floating. The word 'incorporating' is at best ambiguous in the manual....
Perhaps someone from Naim could clarify this.
Richard Dane explained once that because the Naim system uses a star earthing construction there should be only one earthing point. AFAIK (and maybe I'm wrong here) Naim uses only the CDP as an earthing point (and now then also HDX and DAC).
I'm not sufficiently technically educated to know if other non-Naim source components can also act as an earthing point in a Naim pre-/power-amp system.
But you could be right.
My remark was directed at Ken under the assumption that he uses only the CDX2.2 as source and I couldn't make out from his story if he has it connected to the DAC or to the Naim pre-amp.
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aleg