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Digital Front End - Easiest Way to Get Started?
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<blockquote data-quote="Drifter" data-source="post: 430724" data-attributes="member: 13448"><p>You have asked for the<em><strong><u> easiest </u> </strong> </em> way to get started? Well that is simple (let's for now just forget about sound quality).</p><p>1. Get a 3.5mm headphone to 2 x RCA cable</p><p>2. The side with the headphone jack goes into the laptop's headphone socket and 2 x RCA does into your amp's aux input (select this input on your amp)</p><p>3. Download and install a free media player such as VLC on your laptop (there are many different ones) </p><p>4. Load some digital tunes on your pc (Mp3, Flac etc...)</p><p>5. Play the file with VLC (or the media player of your choice)</p><p>and digital music will flow forth from your speakers </p><p></p><p>This answers your question regarding <u><em><strong>"least cost and minimal hassle".</strong></em></u></p><p></p><p>The method will use the laptop's DAC for converting the digital signal to analogue signal and will provide an acceptable quality.</p><p></p><p>For optimal sound quality you can add an external DAC (with a USB input).</p><p>For ease of use (and sound quality) u can load a dedicated audio player such as JRIVER on the laptop and the Android version on your smart device and this will allow you to control the media player from your smart device.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Drifter, post: 430724, member: 13448"] You have asked for the[i][b][u] easiest [/u] [/b] [/i] way to get started? Well that is simple (let's for now just forget about sound quality). 1. Get a 3.5mm headphone to 2 x RCA cable 2. The side with the headphone jack goes into the laptop's headphone socket and 2 x RCA does into your amp's aux input (select this input on your amp) 3. Download and install a free media player such as VLC on your laptop (there are many different ones) 4. Load some digital tunes on your pc (Mp3, Flac etc...) 5. Play the file with VLC (or the media player of your choice) and digital music will flow forth from your speakers This answers your question regarding [u][i][b]"least cost and minimal hassle".[/b][/i][/u] The method will use the laptop's DAC for converting the digital signal to analogue signal and will provide an acceptable quality. For optimal sound quality you can add an external DAC (with a USB input). For ease of use (and sound quality) u can load a dedicated audio player such as JRIVER on the laptop and the Android version on your smart device and this will allow you to control the media player from your smart device. [/QUOTE]
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