All bit sychronous systems carry clocks that are recovered on the other side unless you deal in seperately distributed clocking.
So on average consumer TOSLINK, sure, there is a bit of slip potentially, if you have clock drift, and if you don't attend to that issue in your circuit design. But clock recovery is also well understood and easily incorporated for equipment that cares (and at audiophile prices it sure better care). But clock distribution architecture is not a distinguisher to coax vs. optical. It may be an arguement potentially for not using S/PDIF (coax or optical) without a seperate clocking system. But now we just shifted the discussion to BER and audibility of that, which I was not speaking to. I was addressing the question of whether optical is inferior to coax by default. -- Eric Carroll Transporter-Bryston 3B SST-Paradigm Reference Studio 60 v.4 SB3-Rotel RB890-B&W Matrix 805 SB3-Pioneer VSX-49TXi-Mirage OM7+C2+R2 ReadyNAS NV+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Carroll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9293 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33146 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
