azinck3 Wrote: > A hard drive's digital performance is a non-issue in this discussion. > Due to the error detection, correction, and redundancy throughout any > properly designed computer, data is able to travel speedily and > accurately to any component. The hard-drive isn't the device that's > generating the spdif stream. The quality of the output device (be it > the sound card or squeezebox or whatever) is what has to be called into > question. The output device is going to get perfectly accurate > information in plenty of time, but if it's cheap it might not be able > to lay down a very "pretty" spdif signal (poor edges, bad timing).
I dont disagree at all. You obviously misunderstood my point. Jitter and an '-exactly- correct data stream' are unrelated. I dont think jitter is really an issue with respect to the storage device, as you say, but reproducing a perfect stream of bits correctly has nothing to do with jitter. -- martintyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ martintyler's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2385 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24957 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
