GeeZa;186035 Wrote: > Sorry that wasn't clear. I was referencing the age-old "one box vs two > box" Hifi debate which traditionally involved the single box CD player > (typically using I2S internally) vs the two box Transport and DAC > players (typically linked using SPDIF). > > Imo it used to be quite common in Hifi mags to "prefer" the two box > approach even though there are very good reasons for the single box > units (say the classic Meridian 508.20) to be the more elegant audio > solution. Hifi people tend to prefer more boxes and higher price tags. > I think this *may* account for the bias towards using the Transporter > as a DAC simply because Hifi reviewers might feel more comfortable with > a robust mechanical tranport for their data rather than thin air (Wifi). > Imho using a computer's Wifi signal as a data transport is almost a > faultless audio soltion for two channel data, just not sure everyone > sees it like that. So I guess I was saying that the Wifi->Transporter > method is more akin to the old one-box player solutions in that it's > elegant and does away with SPDIF, which is long overdue imo. > > That probably isn't clear either is it? :-)
No I get it now! The thing we need to hang onto here is that in studios, digital signals move all over the place between (digital desks, ADC's, DAC's, processors, computers / workstations etc etc. Generally these are using not plain SPDIF - but then again they aren't using I2S either!. A master clock is always used to lock everything together. In comparison to what goes on in a studio, the act of playing back two channels of PCM over SPDIF is really REALLY trivial...and yet we agonise over it, without ever thinking what kind of processes have been applied (and yes even in spaced-pair "purist" classical recordings) before the CD ever got made. (sorry this has turned into a rant) I really think we need to put things back into a realistic perspective sometimes. :0) -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33276 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
