Jitterbug;193678 Wrote: > I also take the SPDIF dirctly from the XILINK, so have take the hex > buffer completely out of the circuit - in fact right off the board.
Exposing the XILINX to the external world would make me nervous ;-) It definetely may work, but there are a handful of other components between the HCU04 and the S/PDIF jack, including a small resistor useful to protect from accidental shorts on cables or jacks. More, I'm not sure the Xilinx is able to provide enough current for a clean signal: actually, from the Xilinx pin#3, the signal goes through two buffers in parallel, followed by a capacitor, a resistor divider, and a small inductor. There is another inductor in the ground leg of the jack (on a SB2 these components are labeled C1, R2, R3, L5 and L1 respectively, C1 being feed by HCU04 pins #10 an #12 tied together). I'm afraid removing all these components could actually waste all the benefits of a better clock. Anyway, I'm very interested to see your test results! JLM -- jlmatrat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jlmatrat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10656 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32761 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
