Eric Carroll;184145 Wrote: > 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.
There are problems specific to TOSLINK that have nothing to do with BER. Google on "TOSLINK jitter" or read this for a starter: http://www.stereophile.com/reference/193jitter/index.html -- P Floding No, I didn't ABX it. And I won't even if you ask me. (Especially not if you ask me.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 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
