On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:21:19 +0100, Jim Lesurf
wrote:

In article , David Looser
wrote:
"Jim Lesurf" wrote

Has anyone reading this tried, say, the 'Firestone' USB dac that has
an optical output?

There is a little USB DAC from Maplin which looks to me to be very
similar to the "Firestone" except that it only costs a fraction of the
price. I've used the Maplin DAC for some time and have been very
pleased with it.

Ah! Thanks. I was wondering if they did one. I just got a 'preview'
catalogue from them and had looked though it for that sort of thing with no
success.

Can you recall the part number? If not I'll just see if I can find it.

And does it automatically follow the source sampling rate?

And how does it indentify itself to the 'PC'? The DACMagic reports itself
as a specific 'USB Headphone Set' as that comes from the USB chip they use.

...and do you know if it works with Linux? :-)

Slainte,

Jim

According to the FAQs, it resamples. It only supports 48kHz.

d