cbemoore Wrote: > Read what Sean (Slim Devices CEO) has to say about I2S: > > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=113777&highlight=i2s#post113777
To be clear, there is nothing wrong with i2s (or its variants: left jusified etc) when talking about a small closed chassis where noise is controlled and you have a solid ground plane etc. It is just a synchonous serial signal, nothing special. I've done a great deal of experimentation with clock jitter recently using more advanced tools, and I suspect (thought I haven't tested this particular case yet) that the clock embdedding/recovery mechanism of s/pdif is a red herring, at least for a well designed system with good cables and clean power. I suspect the biggest issue is the noise in the transceivers and on the cable itself, not some inherent sloppiness in the manchester encoding/recovery process. If this is true, then separating clock and data would not address this at all in EITHER case. Only reversing the direction of the clock (by a word clock line, for example) would address this, by confining the "important" clock to a small domain very close to the DAC. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24732 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
