stop-spinning;603665 Wrote: > OK that's useful and reassuring information. > > I am looking to get superb quality sound from the SB (I notice that > Consonance now do something similar). My plans are to use the SB into a > NOS DAC using something like the TDA1543 chips (which I have heard and > liked). > > I might play safe and opt for the SB Touch. I may have been told this > wrongly but, will I compromise the sound quality if I use wireless > instead of 'hard wired' (with good quality CAT6 cable)? Or is it purely > a digital signal without the overhead of carrying a clock signal in the > real time stream with that nasty worry of inducing 'jitter' en-route > over the air-waves? > > So in essence - during the transfer of music from the server to the SB > - is there jitter in any way shape or form?
wi-fi and ethernet are identical. The transmission protocol is TCP/IP which is an asynchronous protocol and thus CANNOT and does not have anything to do with jitter, which is a clock-related phenomena... there are NO clocks in TCP/IP :-) In a squeezebox solution, the only jitter you have to worry about is in an external DAC ( if you are using one ). -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84903 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
