There are several advantages. 1) re: jitter it's best to have the data transmitted asynchronously, stored in memory, and then clocked out to a local DAC with a local oscillator. That minimizes jitter at the DAC in the simplest and best way possible. A USB implementation may or may not be able to achieve equivalent performance, but it cannot be better.
2) SB and TP can connect easily to internet radio and music streaming services (such as slacker, which is great) with or without a server present on the network. 3) multiple devices in different rooms can be easily synched to play in unison. 4) the server can be in a closet, or the basement, or wherever. 5) SB and TP can connect to more than one server if there are several on the same network. That even works over the internet, although you may have to use lossy compression if the connection isn't fast enough. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43129 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
