Skunk wrote: > PCM1748, but I read some white ones at one time came with the > PCM1748KE, which has slightly better specs for twenty cents more > (guessing on price). Upgrading to the KE version is pretty standard for > modders doing analog upgrades.
Today on Digikey, its 23 cents each. > Something to consider is the standard part performs better than > it's specs in this application, according to the designer of the > squeezebox. On a lot of components, the expensive version has no better prefprmance than the standard, in practice. The difference is that the higher spec unit is guaranteed to meet the higher specs. Which is not at all the same as saying that the high-spec part is better. OR that the average hi-spec part is better than the average standard part. The PC CPU makers have been doing this for ages. They make a bunch of CPUs, and all of the parts make at least the spec frequency. The ones that they bother to test, and pass, get stamped with higher frequencies and the price is higher. The CPU may, or may not, be actually faster. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
