There have been plenty of one-box no-compromise (whatever that might mean) cd players. The Linn CD12 for exampe and the top end Naim range. Indeed Naim refused, until recently, to even countenance putting an s/pdif output on their cd players because they argued that it compromised the performance even if it was unused. They only started doing so when they introduced the naim DAC which rebuffers.
The arguments are similar I guess; whether the data comes from a cd transport or across a network the precise desired clock frequency is known absolutely; once s/pdif is involved that precision is degraded. -- JezA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JezA's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21219 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
