Pat Farrell;198969 Wrote: > > There is no such thing as a digital cable. All cables send voltages > down > the wire. When you send a digital signal down a wire, the receiving end > > senses just the major transitions. Analog signals are sensed high, low, > > and in between. >
In fairness, the requirements for sending an S/PDIF signal are rather different than for an analogue audio signal. As I've learned on this forum, you have to remember that even GHz frequency components might be relevant in S/PDIF transmission (as filtering them will round off transitions and induce jitter). That brings even relatively short cables into the transmission line regime, whereas for analogue audio that's not the case at all. Of course that doesn't imply that any of this will make an audible difference - I suspect not - but one can over-engineer. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34749 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
