usb DAC... have you seen (or tried) this?

[xandra]

Just ran into this article about a DAC that connects via USB which sounds kindof promising.

High Resolution Technologies Music Streamer II:
http://www.macworld.com/reviews/prod...&lsrc=rss_main

Has anyone hear tried this, or know anything about the company?

[kawizx9r]

Heard/read a few good things about this little guy - http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls....ni-Excellent-U

No affil.

My cousin should be picking one up soon.

[zingo]

I have both of the below USB DACs from Musiland, as well as an all digital converter from them, and a Matrix mini-i full DAC that also has USB input. All of them work great and the Musiland sounds fine as well.

http://www.pacificvalve.us/MusilandMonitor01US.html

http://www.pacificvalve.us/MusilandMonitor02.html

My only caution to you is that a USB DAC works great if you don't have any other options, but I swithed to Toslink from my computer because there was PC electronic noise. My PC is now electrically isolated from the rest of my audio system which is nice.

[dkg999]

I recently got the Musiland 02 USB DAC. I'm amazed at it's performance for under $130 shipped. I had a little bit of an issue getting the ASIO plug-in working with MediaMonkey, but all is well now and the computer audio system is sounding very good!