USB as output on 120?

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Thanks for the replies.

Today I ran a USB cable from my 120 to my MacBook Pro. I selected the USB as input. It read it as a Deviate 120 and showed an signal. I did not run any software to record, nor was I able to hear anything. But again, I saw the input meters moving with the music.

I need a special USB cable to get it to work with my external DAC. So I ordered that today. Will see if hooking up the USB from my 120 to an external DAC works when I get the right cable (a B male to B male USB... hard to find) and I'll report back. But so far I am seeing a signal coming out of the 120.

Would be great if this works as with the 120, if you are using 3 of the RCA inputs, like I am (L/R stereo in from my phono pre, and 1 S/PDIF from my Sonos) you are only left with one remaining RCA out. So that pretty much makes getting stereo analog out with the preamp board impossible.

Hello - just a word of warning: I'd be very surprised if you can simply connect a USB B-to-B cable between the Devialet and a DAC and get it to do anything useful.  As far as I'm aware, the Devialet is a USB peripheral device, whether it's acting as an audio source or a sink, and so is the DAC likely to be.  That's why they both have USB type B connectors.  The reason why a B-to-B cable is hard to find is that you very rarely if ever want to connect a USB peripheral device to another peripheral - rather a peripheral to a host, which requires an ordinary A-to-B cable.  

(Admittedly it all gets a bit more complicated when you're talking about On-The-Go, but I don't think either the Devialet or a typical DAC implement USB OTG.)