Friday, October 4, 2013

CAS - First experience

I read about computer as source recently. It was when I looking for a budget player for study room. I thought to get a budget player to connect to an old amplifier and a pair small bookshelf speaker. And thought to get a budget bluray disc player which more affordable than CD play and could play audio file. However, I opened to other option. And when looking for this budget player, I read about cas.

Play song with computer is not new to me. I used to play mp3 in computer and laptop. Sometimes, I connect the earphone output from computer to a mini combo. But, connect to DAC from computer was new to me. The connection from computer to DAC seems straight forward and I probably can use the computer in study room for this. So, I thought to give this a try and ordered a DAC with USB input.

About a week later, the DAC arrived. I set up the system on the day I received the DAC. I was so excited to try it out. After connected the cables: for output to amplifier; for power; for computer, I started to install the software driver to computer. When installing the software driver, the system crashed with blue screen. After that, this computer crashes with blue screen whenever the USB cable from DAC is plugged to this computer. I gave up installation to this computer after crashed several times.

Then, I tried on a laptop. This time, the driver is installed successfully. After configured the audio output, I could start play song with this setup.