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Posted by: David75 Sat 29 Dec 2007, 11:32

I have an intel mac mini
I have 3 Belcanto USB dacs.
I can play each of them separately, they work extremely well.

I have a problem though.
I would like to be able to play the same tune to all 3 of these amps at the same time.
IE: If I play a song in iTunes, all 3 amps receive the same stream via USB
Each amp has is attach to one of the four usb outputs on the mac mini.

I tried the aggregate device idea, under midi app control.
The thing is that this aggregate device is composed of 3 separate stereo systems. It's correct.
However, I can't assign the same stream to each system, thus the same 2 channels to each
set of speakers.
So I can play only one amp at a time and need to go to the conf to change the amp I want to
play.

Does anyone know how I can change the settings so that the itunes stereo stream is duplicated one the 3 usb amps at the same time?

I don't want to have a device beetween the mac and the amps for several reasons:
1st: I'm certain it's just a code line and the mac is higly capable of this, however no one ever thought about it and cared to enable this.
2nd: I don't want a third party piece of hardware to mess with my system.

Thanks for any idea of input on this

Bye

Posted by: David75 Tue 22 Jan 2008, 16:46

I guess no one will ever be interrested in the solution I found. Even if it's free.

Strange that no one even cared, so much that I didn"t have even a question or anything.

c u

Posted by: gdoubleyou Tue 22 Jan 2008, 19:38

Not really sure what you are trying to do, also have no idea what a belcanto DAC is.

iTunes is one stereo stream, that can be assigned to one stereo output at a time.

Aggregate device allows multiple devices to be addressed like a single device.

Also i don't visit this forume everyday.

Posted by: David75 Wed 23 Jan 2008, 13:36

Well I found a solution, as I wrote in my bump reply yesterday.
I was just a bit astonished by the large amount of reading, but absolutely no reply for my question. I would have prefered a reply like yours, but weeks ago
But I know I'm a bit negative in my replies from yesterday.
However, the only reaction I got was after being negative like this

Just forget it then.

Bye