Havoc;183781 Wrote: 
> BTW, in the digital chain there is no error detection, let alone
> correction. Once the RS is done, nothing can intervene. SPDIF has no
> redundancy either.

Not true - while S/PDIF's error handling is indeed limited, it DOES
detect errors using parity bits. A DAC typically will mute if it is
receiving a  stream with errors, but it could also mask an occasional
bad sample using interpolation.


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