Well, if you imagine the coax SPDIF to be a variable mark/space pulse train at high frequency, then it can be affected by almost anything...cables, termination etc. Certainly noise can be injected into it which could alter its interpretation. If you are dubious, try using a long (>10m?), very cheap HDMI cable and revel in the "digital snow" on your hi-def TV. This is basically the same thing, but it is more obvious because: 1) it's much easier to see "noise" than it is to hear it 2) HDMI is much greater bandwith (2Ghz?) so is more sensitive to cable quality, termination and so on
Now we could have some fun here, but I think that SPDIF is more fragile than HDMI... Ironically, it was my experiments with HDTV that finally convinced me that digital audio signals need a lot of TLC, and that they can easily be "corrupted". -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23200 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
