Skunk Wrote: > Quoting P Floding <P.Floding.2532ez1143051302 (AT) no-mx (DOT) > forums.slimdevices.com>: > > Last time I checked hard disks had moving parts! ;-D > > I'm guessing the wink means you realize the disk isn't part of the > timing chain.
I would have thought that in today's (one-box) CD-players the DAC's clock dictates things, and data is read on demand off of the CD. However, this is just an assumption. Skunk Wrote: > > > Of course, there is absolutely nothing that have stopped the industry > > > from >doing this right all along, even with CD -they just haven't > > most of the time. > > I would think Moore's law played a large role in buffering and > reclocking audio data, as Jim noted. OK, let me rephrase: The last 15 years there has not been any technical reason not to do things right. Skunk Wrote: > > > P.S: Using the SB with an external DAC reintroduces the exact same > > old problem. > > Thus my infatuation with the internal DAC. If asynchronous transmission > > eliminates the catch 22 of having to seperate digital components for > better isolation- while using less than ideal connections; an external > > DAC hanging off the SB seems rather Luddite in approach. I run digital output into my TacT room correction and DAC. There are many good reasons to keep source and processing separate, so a proper standardized interface that allows the master clock to be right at the DAC would have been nice. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
