Oops, I mis-read your question...I thought you were asking what _I_ could hear. But basically the answer is the same. If you are comparing two devices whose output jitter differ by a few tens of picoseconds, I would not expect you to be able to detect a difference simply by listening to the output of a DAC fed by s/pdif. The interface could easily be adding _another_ 150ps RMS by the time the signal gets to the DAC chip.
Although the clock jitter is ~30ps RMS lower in Transporter than in Squeezebox, I would consider both products to be practically ideal *as plain s/pdif sources*, because there's only so good you can get anyway with s/pdif. The jitter that s/pdif adds will dwarf whatever a high quality source is generating. That is why Transporter incorporates an extremely high quality _internal_ DAC, and _also_ supports external word clock sync in either direction. An absurdly low-jitter clock is of little benefit if you're just going to send it over s/pdif. However, I would love to be proven wrong. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32993 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
