tot;216663 Wrote: > Isn't this the point of digital audio -- any signal degration in digital > does not affect the sound as long as bits get through unmodified whereas > in analog everything changes the sound at least a a little bit. > ...snip... > I have thought of proving this to myself (and maybe others) by playing > for example something through SB and recording the digital out with > different length cables (I have UA-25 that takes cox/optical in) and > see if I have a bitwise identical copy... never got around doing this > though. > > Teemu Yes, but the point is not that there are data errors; there should be none, and this is exactly what your test should show. The point is that the recovered clock is unstable. Recording the digital output of a SB will tell you nothing about the DAC clock.
In this regard, the performance of a device like the Transporter should excell. It has its own, very stable clock source. The Transporter's clock controls the rate at which data is requested from Slimserver. When using an S/PDIF input, the Transporter has to deal with the same problem as any other DAC, recovering the clock and servo'ing its internal clock to the recovered clock. (Unless you can use the word clock on the Transporter to lock the digital source to the Transporter's clock. Is this possible? Has anyone done it?) -- Timothy Stockman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy Stockman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8867 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37044 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
