Re jitter - I would suggest it is known to exist and matter, but whether it matters in your setup depends on what the designer has done to the individual components you have. Many modern dacs like the benchmark do some form of reclocking to minimise jitter and hence don't drive the dac conversion from a simple recovery of transitions on the spdif line. Hence they are far less sensitive to transport jitter and poor spdif transmission lines.
The Benchmark appears to be a well engineered, but relatively standard implementation of asychronous sample rate conversion - some details at: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8078&highlight= BTW - diyAudio's digital board is a good source of debate about jitter and all things digital. Also while I am at it, there has been some debate on AA's computer audio asylum recently about doing resampling in software due to the improved algorithms that could be run - see: http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/4690.html This won't help jitter, but is interesting - perhaps slimserver could do some upsampling... Adrian -- Triode _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
