nice, care to explain your pc setup?
I haven't been able to get a good picture of the tube glow either
I'm going to start running vxpocket digi out->dac for now
see now, if you had had me as your houseguest next week, i coulda shown ya
(i am kidding - i know you had plans)
signal path: ap2496 > spdif coax > monarchy dip(s) > mensa > joLida
display: matrix orbital lcd2041 (with their supplied serial cable interface and adapted power cable) > lcdsmartie (which reads the output of the foo_txt plugin in foobar2000)
control: airbord IR remote keyboar/mouse (which i use to train the theatermaster mx700)
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fwiw...
i have the optical out of the c2000es (sacd/cd player) plugged into the first monarchy in the DAC chain [it has two inputs (coax + optical), with a toggle switch on the back], so that i am using the sony player as a redbook transport only, because i switch the monarchy to optical input, and then the cd digital goes through the dac chain. if the toggle is set to coax input, it takes whatever i play in foobar2000 (including 24/96 audio files)...
i have the rca outs of that sacd/cd unit go to the second input on the joLida for sacd playback...
the nak deck plays back via the dat analog input, so i can have save the last jolida input (of four) for the phono...