OK - well my personal observation is that the only conceivable area of the SB digital out that can be improved is jitter. Jitter is very low to start with. However, to get it vanishingly low, the clock in the DAC needs to take control of the SB so that the two move in lock-step. This gets rid of the major drawback of the spdif or toslink interface, namely that the receiving device (the DAC in this case) needs to recover the embedded clock signal so that individual slices of the music play back at exactly the right moment in time with no "uncertainty".
This requires a mod to both SB and DAC unless you are lucky enough to already have a DAC with a wordclock out capability (most don't). This can be done - several mod companies offer this. I'd love to do it but my system is more complex and right now I don't feel the need since I had my DAC modded. By the way, the Altmann devices I was referring to aren't their DAC's...its their JISCO and UPCI devices that connect to the input to your existing DAC. Phil -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn 5103 - Linn Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43433 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
