[abrombo]

I have decided to do everything with alsa aloop (virtual loop back sound card) and real sound card (xonar d2) no hdmi sound scraper needed. Output of aloop is sent to ecasound with filters implemented as in http://rtaylor.sites.tru.ca/2013/06/25/d...are-howto/ and output of ecasound sent to physical sound card. The problem is that my sound card has no master volume control that is separate from the individual channel volume controls (the master volume control just gangs together the individual controls) so that if the volume is set too high with the master volume control the relative volume settings of the channels are lost. My solution is an analog volume control on each output of the sound card (quality audio taper 10 kOhm pot) the setting of which determines the relative output of each channel. If your sound card has master that is independent of individual volume controls you would not need this piece of hardware. Today I ordered (back ordered) the cbt26k speaker kit http://www.parts-express.com/audio-artis...t--301-980. These speakers are bi-amplified with a fairly complex transfer function (combination of Linkwitz-Riley, shelving, and time delay filters) that I will implement with ecasound and the plugins from rtaylor.sites.tru.ca.

The only problem with using a dsp module for kodi is that it will only work for kodi output and currently in kodi I cannot play from my Amazon Prime account using the kodi addon. It used to work, but stopped working. I am currently using google-chrome for that purpose. Also, kodi does not have an addon that can play music streams input from the analog input of the computer sound card. I have a lot of records and don't want to have to digitize them with adacity to listen to them.