krzys;223930 Wrote: > Sean, I understand you very clearly, the theoretical point is there. As > I said max level, no replaygain and no processing. But when I feed my > system from the PC sound card or from cd player used as transport > playing the same file, the level is higher than from the SB. > Is it possible that my SB has some defect in the SPDIF ? > Until now no other member has reported such a problem ? > Chris
krzys, it sounds like there might be a point here you're not fully appreciating. The signal you're asking about is digital. It doesn't really have a level the way an analogue signal would - think of it as a sequence of 1's and 0's that encode audio information. 1 is 1 and 0 is 0 - you can have different sequences, but not different levels. It's the DAC that takes those 1's and 0's and turns them into an analogue signal, which then goes out to the amplifier. So long as the digital source is able to send the correct sequence of 1's and 0's to the DAC, it's done its job, end of story. And if the correct sequence didn't get through, the DAC would play something (maybe noisy static, depending) - but it would NOT play the same musical signal at lower volume. So the only way this can be happening is if either the SB or SS or the ripping process have altered the level. That can happen in any of the ways suggested above - something, somewhere, is applying a volume adjustment to the files you're playing over the SB. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38024 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
