SBGK wrote: > after hearing the sound quality of my nad m51 via hdmi from my laptop i > am now resigned to the fact that the touch is a dead end in terms of > sound quality improvements in my system. EDO is just a distraction it > has higher resolution, but poor sound quality. > > i have not heard anything better than hdmi into the m51 via jplay xtreme > for foobar2000 a real connection with the music, like listening to it > for the first time. smooth, sweet, detailed just like music should sound > and the sound from acoustic guitar is amazingly lifelike. nad say they > use i2s over hdmi, i am inclined to believe them. > > anyone want to buy a MCRU 5v linear power supply and a mf vlink 192 ? > comes with free fa upgraded touch in a sandwich box.
HDMI done correctly [I think its hdmi 1.3 and later] will also be async - i.e. the clock in the dac and feedback messages sent to the player to adjust the playback rate to match the clock of the dac. So it has the potential to be technically better than anything with an spdif link in it such as an external usb to spdif converter as that always requires the dac to recover the clock in some way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94855 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
