Phil et. al, Steve/Empirical audio does recommend the use of DACs with I2S input. They have one DAC and can modify DACs I think. The Pace Car can be used without any modification to the source component also. In that case, the clock that is moving bits out of the FIFO buffer gets adjusted periodically, but this "period" is at a very low frequency compared to what a PLL does. Ofcourse, components like Pace Car are a "bandaid" to bad clocks in transports. Ideally, we all would like to see transports/streaming devices with I2S outputs. Ofcourse, not having I2S is not enough, the clock should be of high quality as well (i.e intrinsic jitter should be low as well). Actually, I would go for the Pace Car if Empirical audio would mod by Panny digital amplifier receiver with a clock or I2S input as well (probably not now when all my savings have taken a beating :-( ) (BTW, driving the transport from the DAC is to mainly not to use the extracted clock from the SPDIF connection.)
-- 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
