Thank you Morten, I hope so too!
Last week I bought a Kingrex Unanimous Ucraft USB Y cable and a Kingrex U-Power battery PSU (see also: http://devialetchat.com/Thread-Antoine-s...85#pid4285) so will use those. This 'dual headed' cable allows me to separate power and data lines and insert clean power instead of relying on the USB bus power from a computer. The JCat USB card has two USB ports so I can connect the Kingrex cable to both and set the jumpers on the card in a way that one port isn't powered and the other is. It provides (additional) power filtering for the powered ports but I have to test and see if this improves the already (supposedly) clean battery power provided by the Kingrex U-Power. This power BTW can be fed to the JCat externally through a 5.5x2.1mm jack or internally through a 4 pin Molex connector.
People that don't have a dual-headed USB cable can of course profit too from the JCat card as the card can inject that externally fed power to the DAC. The card itself has filtered IC's and high quality clocks as well so should provide a better USB interface than a regular mainboard does. People are raving about this solution and as the Devialet's USB system is basically a 'run of the mill' XMOS system I hope I will too.
Last week I bought a Kingrex Unanimous Ucraft USB Y cable and a Kingrex U-Power battery PSU (see also: http://devialetchat.com/Thread-Antoine-s...85#pid4285) so will use those. This 'dual headed' cable allows me to separate power and data lines and insert clean power instead of relying on the USB bus power from a computer. The JCat USB card has two USB ports so I can connect the Kingrex cable to both and set the jumpers on the card in a way that one port isn't powered and the other is. It provides (additional) power filtering for the powered ports but I have to test and see if this improves the already (supposedly) clean battery power provided by the Kingrex U-Power. This power BTW can be fed to the JCat externally through a 5.5x2.1mm jack or internally through a 4 pin Molex connector.
People that don't have a dual-headed USB cable can of course profit too from the JCat card as the card can inject that externally fed power to the DAC. The card itself has filtered IC's and high quality clocks as well so should provide a better USB interface than a regular mainboard does. People are raving about this solution and as the Devialet's USB system is basically a 'run of the mill' XMOS system I hope I will too.
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