DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER Introduction The purpose of this document is to provide in Another benefit of the RDD-1580 is its ability this socket to one of the appropriate inputs depth background information about the Rotel to dramatically improve TV sound from either of the RDD-1580.
Digital Audio Formats Resolution, sampling and digital audio file types There is much discussion about the appropri- The first stages in converting an analogue AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) is ate choice of digital audio file format. There are audio signal to a digital version involves Apple’s version of WAV.
Macs or Windows based comput- the software.) nals that are applied to the RDD-1580 via the ers however can be difficult to use with media dbpoweramp (dbpoweramp.com) S/PDIF, Toslink and PC-USB inputs.
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Windows 7 and Vista to optimize data transfer between Windows and an asyn- chronous DAC. Media Center 18 version is well suited to be used with a RDD-1580 because the RDD-1580 uses asynchronous DAC tech- nology for the PC/USB input.
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PC-USB input of the that Devise usage is set to ‘Use this device no choice but to select one of these RDD-1580. This applies regardless of the (enable)’. (Figure 4) two sampling frequencies, if available media player that you choose to use.
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We would normally advocate cloud player; digital audio files can be sent es of your computer, if it is Windows based. from these devices to the RDD-1580 using the balanced output if you have balanced via Bluetooth. inputs available to you.
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