Robin Bowes;184562 Wrote: > pablolie wrote: > > > It's *data*. Data integrity is the key. It does not matter of the > > signal gets somewhat distorted. That's actually one of the key > > advantages of digital interfaces: you don't have to worry as much > over > > signal integrity. It's no misconception at all. An ugly bit is still > a > > bit. > > I'm afraid you're wrong. > > I suggest you read up on how SPDIF works and the potential weaknesses > inherent in its design. > > R.
SPDIF is BMC encoded, and *digital*. Please tell us what's wrong about that. Consequently, the quality of the phyiscal signal has to be quite compromised for a bit error to occur, and until a bit error occurs the signal issues are immaterial. Truly. You seem to disagree about the probability of that happening, but to argue ver the fact that the data is encoded digitally is lunacy. Of course there will always be analog effects at the signal transmission level, and those have been discussed in this forum when the merits of RCA and Toslink were compared. That's where the signal quality discussion kicks in. Other than that I truly have no idea what analog effect you should be talking about: we ought to simply be worried whether your 20 bit (or 24) audio data stream emerges identical on the remote end as it is presented to the DAC subystem. The fear seemed to be the data goes into the DAC subsystem with additional jitter if the Toslink connector is used. You seem to be introducing a data integrity element that as far as I have seen no one has brought up, since the interface is quite resilient at that level, irrespective of the interface type used for transmission. -- pablolie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 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
