dsdreamer wrote:
I have the Rega DAC too, BTW. Anything that has SPDIF as its output is
going to suffer from the main design flaw of SPDIF: namely the need to
recover the clock from the data. If you could go USB to I2S such that
the clock is transmitted explicitly and separately from the
rgro, I also have a Rega dac and have used it via usb from the SBT
thanks to Triode's work. I found there was quite a difference in
presentation compared to spdif. Which you prefer is subjective, but you
should give it a try. The changes are easy to reverse.
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john4456
john4456;697048 Wrote:
rgro, I also have a Rega dac and have used it via usb from the SBT
thanks to Triode's work. I found there was quite a difference in
presentation compared to spdif. Which you prefer is subjective, but you
should give it a try. The changes are easy to reverse.
Very
Consider this .
Async USB may be the best interface ever if properly implemented .
But spdiff and TOS is not to shoddely done in a good DAC either .
There is a lot of well implemented work arounds to the inherit
weaknesses in those connections .
Can anyone be expected to hear any difference
Looking at all the excitement over Triode's work with asynchronous USB
stuff, can someone explain to all of us numpties if asynch USB is
somehow better than, for instance, using a regular dac's connection
to the Touch via coax or toslink?
For instance, my Rega dac has a USB input. If the
rgro;696779 Wrote:
Looking at all the excitement over Triode's work with asynchronous USB
stuff, can someone explain to all of us numpties if asynch USB is
somehow better than, for instance, using a regular dac's connection
to the Touch via coax or toslink?
For instance, my Rega dac has a
The main advantage of the Asynch USB connection is the elimination of
clock jitter.
Basically, rather than having to recover a clock signal from the signal
sent by the SBT to the DAC (Push), the asynch USB approach allows the
DAC to control when it receives information (Pull).
SBTs are fairly
Thank you both. In light of your commenets, I did a bit of research on
the Rega dac. It seems that its USB interface only supports up to 16
bit/48khz files.
While I don't have a huge amount of 24 bit/88/96khz files, I have
enough that I don't think I would sacrifice those in order to make
rgro;696833 Wrote:
Thank you both. In light of your commenets, I did a bit of research on
the Rega dac. It seems that its USB interface only supports up to 16
bit/48khz files.
While I don't have a huge amount of 24 bit/88/96khz files, I have
enough that I don't think I would sacrifice
