toby10 wrote: > Toslink as a spec is more than capable of 24/192. But a lot of toslink > hardware imposes limits to 96. There are several speed grades of TOSLINK, the lowest speed grades just barely work with 96, 192 is beyond them. The higher speed grades can handle 192 quite well, but if you mix speed grades 192 is problematical. So I think a lot of DAC makers don't want to be in the situation of using a high speed receiver but having the user plug in a slow speed transmitter and get marginal performance so they just don't allow 192 over TOSLINK period. And because a lot of DACs don't support 192 on TOSLINK, some sources don't bother with the high speed transmitter. (which bothers me a bit since the difference in price is small, $5 for the high speed and $3.50 for the slow speed)
Even with a slow speed transmitter it is possible to do 192 with a little extra electronics to "clean up" the signal coming from the high speed receiver, but that costs more money and development time etc, and some companies just don't want to deal with that. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
