hi clive, that's great that you're happy with your rig - that's a lot more than i can say for most "audiophiles"!
cliveb Wrote: > This thread started out as a discussion of SPDIF. My only intention in > posting was to point out how amazingly robust the protocol is, and that > people fret far too much about it. right, sorry for all the digressions. back to the subject at hand, and where my objection originally started. :) not to fan the flames of audiophile neurosis, but i actually do not think most people are not concerned ENOUGH with it. i'm guilty of this as well, i tend to just throw a belden coax in there and be done with it - i'm usually too lazy to fuss with it. but i've been using a single-box CD player for a few years now, so i haven't had to contend with the whole SPDIF ordeal. yes, SPDIF is very robust - that was clearly one of the original design objectives. however, i disagree that this robustness in data integrity translates to immunity to audible changes. this is not just a subjective evaluation, it is easily measurable as well. really, the best way is to avoid SPDIF altogether by using I2S (either internally as all CD players do, or externally to the DAC). but if you are stuck with it, it *is* worthwhile to play with different cables, connectors, tx/rx circuits, etc. to see if it makes a difference in sound quality, even in a resampling DAC like the Benchmark. the more i learn about how things work, the more i realize how little i actually know and how much knowledge and experience it takes before you can start to understand all the myriad phenomena at play in even the simplest of circuits. just perusing some of the in-depth technical discussions on the DIY sites has forced me to dust off the ol' EE college textbooks. cheers, dorkus -- dorkus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dorkus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3373 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21415 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
