lovejoy wrote: > It's a curse. Oh to be able to enjoy music as much from a tinny micro > system ;-). > > > > I agree with the vast majority of what you say except for the > transmission method. This is where the *BIG* differences happen. > SPDIF/TOSLINK are both a massive fudge - always have been and all the > manufacturers know this. The problem, before all of the transmission > line reflections and impedance mismatches are that data and clock are > interleaved down the same cable. Interleaving will always cause jitter > issues, so this alone makes these formats less than desirable. No-one > outside of a domestic environment uses TOSLINK/SPDIF, using balanced > 110Ohm AES. I work every day with 110Ohm balanced and 75Ohm unbalanced > digital audio connections and you can quite easily measure errors in > going from one to the other without using balancing transformers. > Shielded cables certainly make a difference if you're trying to get away > with it, so it's not unreasonale to think that the same thing is > happening with different grades of SPDIF/COAX cable - I'm not saying you > have to spend silly money on esoteric cables. In fact, I'm positively > against it, especially when you know that most of this stuff is just > marketing and can be made up at home given some soldering skills and the > knowledge of the right cables and plugs to use. It's reasonable to assume that there may be measurable differences, but are they audible? That's the real question. It's different in a pro setting where you don't want to propagate those small errors, they could add up to something audible eventually.
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