Themis;375981 Wrote: > I read the technical details and there's something I just don't get: > > If the Pace Car uses a FIFO I/O buffer, then why does it need to > "slave"(replace?) the input SB3 clock ? The I/O buffer is not enough, > thus ? I don't get it.
Well..it looks like you are not patient enough to read through the whole thing. I do not have any of Empirical audio products (well, a used power cord is an exception)but Steven Nugent is a very technical guy. He is retired from Intel and he is doing this out of personal interest in audio. Whatever he does, he tries to get down to the bottom of the issue and fix it. Instead of buying products worth thousands of dollars from big names I will rather buy from him. IIRC, he is addressing jitter in a very effective way. The Pace Car operates in two modes and in one of the modes, it injects the clock back into the source device. Ideally, you can now just take the SPDIF out of that device and it will be fine. But you need to separate the clock out again from the SPDIF out which will again introduce jitter. The Pace car has a I2S output with separate clocks for this reason. The Squeezebox is a cool product (that I enjoy). But I personally would go for Empirical audio mods than for the Transporter. (I am mentioning this as a person who is running an all digital stereo setup with Panny digital amplifier receivers and SB3 and who has really tried to make this architecture work as effectively as possible). -- SoftwireEngineer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SoftwireEngineer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7000 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57107 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
