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Peter,
It is a good box. How do you intend to use it? -
as the dac for my cd player, and dvd player (stereo)Originally posted by Victor
i skimped on my cd player (cambridge 540 v1) knowing i would us an external dac... this has the added benifit of resolving jitter too
digital coax in too, i am in heaven
never owned behringer products and am sceptical but everyone loves them on hereComment
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Peter,
I am not familiar with Cambridge 540 v1. Although it may be a budget CD player, still its analog section might be fine and the use of an external D/A box may give you negligible improvement.
Here are the issues to keep in mind if you decide to use Behringer box. It is a dedicated A/D converter with an integral Asynchronous Sample Rate Converter. That means that its primary purpose is to change the sampling rate on the fly. Its A/D section is fine and it even has a rather competent anti-aliasing filter, but you will not be using its A/D stage anyway.
You indicate that you want this box to function as a DAC. Well, it has only two Digital Inputs, - the AESBU and the optical SPDI/F. The AESBU input is designed to operate with professional equipment and as such it expects voltage levels that your CD player will not generate. Although I tested it and it also works with commercial gear, but it was not intended to work this way. The signal refection and consequent noise level might be an issue here, but I do not think you’ll hear it anyway. It is just bad engineering approach to use AESBU with commercial voltage levels.
Optical input will work fine, but you only have one of those and, as I understand, you want to use this box with both the CD player and your DVD player, - so this is a problem also.
I would not worry too much about jitter, because the jitter levels in a CD player are negligible since it is by definition a synchronous digital system.
VictorComment
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ill give it a try and see
it has digital coax too btwComment
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