Peachtree X-1 USB to Coax box
Feb 20, 2015 5:35:38 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2015 5:35:38 GMT
If you have a DAC that doesn't accept a direct USB feed, like my Audio Note DAC Kit 1.1, a digital interface must be procured to affect that USB transfer of data (music). My situation was leaving my AN DAC locked in to a digital interface for sound emanating from my HDTV's toslink output. It was being sent to an Audio Alchemy DTi digital switch box interface that converted toslink input to coax output, then on to the AN DAC. I was hoping to acquire a USB to coax interface that performed commensurately with the AN DAC.
So, for $149 US, I took a chance on the Peachtree X-1 USB input to coax output little box. I read where it has a pulse transformer on the coax output that is supposed to eliminate computer noise, and it is a very clear and definitive presentation I hear with the X-1 in situ. It sends up to a 24bit 192khz signal on to the AN DAC's coax input, via a Kimber .75 meter DV-60 coax cable. The AN DAC's uprated CS 8414 digital input receiver chip accepts a 24 bit 96 kHz signal but the AD 1865N DAC chip truncates that 24bit signal to 18bit. But still, what this all means in terms of sound performance, is that the AN DAC is now able to perform as an Audio Note component via USB connection. And, since I have a pretty good understanding for what AN accomplishes with music reproduction from my other AN UK gear, I really am hearing true to timbre, superb attack and decay, and elegance of sound without losing the "jump" needed for electronica and rock, via my computer's USB output interface.
The Peachtree X-1 USB to coax digital interface, as I hear it, is a fine addition for me to listen to USB derived music via my AN DAC. It doesn't cost the Earth, and is a high quality, high performing "keeper" of a digital interface. j
So, for $149 US, I took a chance on the Peachtree X-1 USB input to coax output little box. I read where it has a pulse transformer on the coax output that is supposed to eliminate computer noise, and it is a very clear and definitive presentation I hear with the X-1 in situ. It sends up to a 24bit 192khz signal on to the AN DAC's coax input, via a Kimber .75 meter DV-60 coax cable. The AN DAC's uprated CS 8414 digital input receiver chip accepts a 24 bit 96 kHz signal but the AD 1865N DAC chip truncates that 24bit signal to 18bit. But still, what this all means in terms of sound performance, is that the AN DAC is now able to perform as an Audio Note component via USB connection. And, since I have a pretty good understanding for what AN accomplishes with music reproduction from my other AN UK gear, I really am hearing true to timbre, superb attack and decay, and elegance of sound without losing the "jump" needed for electronica and rock, via my computer's USB output interface.
The Peachtree X-1 USB to coax digital interface, as I hear it, is a fine addition for me to listen to USB derived music via my AN DAC. It doesn't cost the Earth, and is a high quality, high performing "keeper" of a digital interface. j