Sometimes bits change due to transcoding, resampling, or other DSP being run on the sound by software or hardware. For instance: roku devices resample everything to 48khz. While the resultant PCM audio would sonically "make sense", A DTS signal (due to the way it's encoded) wouldn't survive this resampling. Some devices will adjust the volume level of the signal before sending it through the digital outs...this, too, changes the original pattern of the bits--the data is changed and results in something that makes sense sonically, but would break DTS. Still other devices might run some sort of "sound-enhancing" DSP, or even more egregiously, transcode to mp3 or another lossy format somehwere in the signal chain.
Anyhow...the OP was just verifying that the original data would arrive 100% intact at the SB's digital outputs. In fact, the old SB1 can not accomplish this feat--it inverts the data. -- azinck3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23955 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
