PhilNYC Wrote: > The reason I've heard from some engineers is that the conversion process > from one medium to another (eg. optical to electrical) is where there is > the greatest probability of adding jitter. With coax, everything stays > electrical, but with toslink, the signal must be converted from > electrical to optical and back. > > Coincidentially, one of the arguments that says a hard drive is better > than a CD is that the conversion from magnetic to electrical is far > simpler than optical to electrical...
Yeah, that just silliness. There are so many complex processes going on from the magnetic platter to the output signal that it hardly matters if an an optical conversion is introduced somewhere in the chain (even if that *did* qualify as "more complex")! Sounds like classic audio salestalk to me! :) -- LavaJoe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LavaJoe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18772 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
