lovejoy wrote: > It's a curse. Oh to be able to enjoy music as much from a tinny micro > system ;-).
That's is the rub! Music can be enjoyed using an iPod boombox but if one wants to immerse oneself fully into the music then a somewhat nicer playback system is needed. lovejoy wrote: > 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. USB of course avoids all > of the transmission line problems and gives you separate clock lines, > even better if you have an Asynchronous DAC connection It's a good thing that I have a Transporter connected to my preamp via the balanced analog outputs in my main stereo since this completely avoids having to use any nasty coax or toslink connections :). On my other Squeezebox to external DAC setups I've simply learned to live with these less than perfect means of digital data transmission. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95872 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
