Skunk Wrote: > Latency between the input receiver and chip? I know the USB data > contains no clock info, but your comments are a little over my head.
Latency across the USB link. This will effect the amount of delay between the pc producing the sound, and you hearing it. I'm actually now thinking that this should be completely insignificant, especially if they're using USB2. with regards to this bit of poetry: "The S/PDIF environment is more prone to unwanted variations in the frequency of the incoming word-clock signal, which the converter is always trying to track. But with a USB controller generating its own word-clock signal, the frequency remains steady." The squeezebox uses a fixed crystal oscillator for its clock, so it doesn't suffer at all from this problem. Obviously, a DAC hanging off a squeezebox will suffer. As for "USB controller generating its own word-clock signal" - depending on the implementation, this could be worse than an SPDIF receiver generating a word-clock. Of course, the detail is not given, and I would assume the best (given the price). However, "comparison to various cd players was forbidden." err, is it me, or did someone just paint "snake oil" in flourescant letters across the article? -- bludragon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bludragon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1530 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19367 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
