yunti;403404 Wrote: 
> Thanks for the responses, very informative
> 
> So in short it seems that the checksums pretty much completely
> mitigates the chance of error (from storage of the file up until it
> reaches the DAC), which we would see in eg the Transporter as the
> "squeezebox" in built in. And with a squeezebox attached to an amp the
> only error would be the jitter due to the spdif connection? (which is
> arguably inaudible)
> 
> So does the TCP/Flac checksums omit  the need for the asynchronous mode
> which is in some of the USB based music clients? (which gives control of
> getting the file to the client rather than the OS of where the files are
> stored)

There is no benefit to using USB in this context. TCP/IP over Ethernet
is the way to go...

TCP/IP is "async" by definition...


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