DCC2 with Hard Drive, Subwoofer?


Interested to hear reviews from anyone using the Emm Labs DCC2 in conjunction with a hard drive and also want to know if you can integrate a subwoofer when using the DCC2.
rsbeck

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What pieces are included in your Hard Drive/ DCC2 system, how do you like it, what else have you heard and how would you compare your hard drive/DCC2 system to others you've heard. If you also are using a subwoofer with your hard drive/DCC2 system, how did you integrate it, was there any difficulty, etc. That kind of stuff.
It's hard for me to get out on a Saturday Night, but I'm going to try to make it on the 25th. I am also using Sonos. Currently, I am using it with an Apogee Mini-Dac, which sounds great. In the same istening room, I also have an Emm Labs DAC6e and SWM3, which I use for special occasion critical listening, but the Sonos/Apogee system sounds so good and is so convenient, like you, I find myself listening to it 99% of the time. I also have a Velodyne DD-15 that I bought for my theater, but I bought it used on Audiogon and it arrived broken and I was in a hurry to get good sound in the theater, so I went out and bought a JL F113 Fathom, which sounds fantastic. Velodyne took care of the DD-15 very quickly and for a reasonable price, so now I am thinking about using it in the listening room. The Sonos ZP-80 doesn't have a sub-woofer output. This all got me thinking that I could sell the Dac6e and SM3, replace it with a DCC2, and simplify my listening room system while taking it to another level and it might be easier to integrate the subwoofer with a Sonos/DCC2 system. What are your thoughts? I'd be glad to come over and listen to your system, that'd be fun and educational, I could get over the motion blur as long as it is in your theater and not mine. :-) Do you live near OB?
Great info -- out of curiosity, where did you get the Y-connector? Do I understand you correctly to say that it is a balanced interconnect from DCC2 to your amp, but the Y splits off to a single ended interconnect for your subwoofer?
I read it again. I think I get it. Y connector with the Two RCA end going into the DCC2's L & R RCA outs and One RCA end going into the SUBWOOFER, so that the low frequencies from the DCC2's L & R would go to the powered Sub.

Then, XLR's from the DCC2's L & R to your amplifier's L & R channels.

Am I right?
RM -- I am in Marin County. Oakland is just across the Richmond San Rafael bridge. It'd be interesting to bring my Apogee Mini-Dac over and A/B it with the
DCC2. The Apogee has XLR outs.