Gazjam;578326 Wrote: > a bit contentious (probably :)), but a genuine question. > Any improvements over SPDIF usng USB into a suitable Dac? > > Not so much for my Caiman dac, the usb max's at 16/44, but maybe for > others?
There is no way to make a generic statement on that, its going to be all over the place. Many DACs that have both S/PDIF and USB inputs use a USB to S/PDIF converter and feed it into the S/PDIF input under the hood. In this case the USB input is probably going to be worse. (but not necessarily always so, again it depends on many other factors) There are several USB input implementations that are REALY good, and these could easily outperform a run of the mill S/PDIF implementation. A designer that uses one of these good USB circuits is probably also going to use a good S/PDIF implementation as well, so there may not be very much difference between the two on THAT box. But between different boxes it could go either way. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82110 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
