tmh
01-12-2010, 05:31 PM
Does anyone have experience with receiving an internet FM broadcast and feeding the USB based signal to a quality DAC rather than using a conventional FM tuner? The choices of radio stations in Naples, FL is limited but if I can get all the stations on the internet and then obtain a quality sound from the USB port of a computer and feed it through a quality DAC I'll consider going that route.
I have always heard that the fidelity of satellite radio was marginal for a quality music source. I'm interested in XM as I recently heard a Magnum Dynalab XM tuner that sounded impressive and the choices for programming is very impressive. However, the Magnum Dynalab units aren't cheap ($2.5k-4k). Apparently the Magnum units have a high quality DAC as well as using triode based tubes for the analog function.
I like the diversity of all the XM stations but I may put my money into an Apple lap top as a music server and also for internet radio if that provides a higher quality audio source.
If anyone has experience with this I'd love your feedback.
T.M. Hayes
I have always heard that the fidelity of satellite radio was marginal for a quality music source. I'm interested in XM as I recently heard a Magnum Dynalab XM tuner that sounded impressive and the choices for programming is very impressive. However, the Magnum Dynalab units aren't cheap ($2.5k-4k). Apparently the Magnum units have a high quality DAC as well as using triode based tubes for the analog function.
I like the diversity of all the XM stations but I may put my money into an Apple lap top as a music server and also for internet radio if that provides a higher quality audio source.
If anyone has experience with this I'd love your feedback.
T.M. Hayes