We really, really need to start a separate thread, this is not at all about a simple question for the guy who is now retired from SlimDevices/Logitech
Kellen wrote: > pfarrell;485860 Wrote: >> The SB3 does exactly that already. > I must be confusing things then because, as things stand at the moment, > I am unable to use TCP/IP to connect the digi out of my SB3 to the digi > in on my EAD. I can only make such a connection with either SPDIF or > optical. Is this because it's not possible to have TCP/IP handle such a > connection? It is not possible. You are confusing the types of things that the connection can do. SPDIF is a direct device connection, it sends out square waves and the receiving device converts them to analogue music. it goes from one device to a single target. TCP/IP is a network connection protocol, it handles retransmission, error correction, routing, etc. When Sean said "there are devices that use TCP/IP" he meant that things like the SB1/SB2/SB3/Receiver/Boom/Radio use TCP/IP to send music over the ether. You can't do what you are asking, and you do not want to do what you are asking. If you worry about jitter over 3 feet of SPDIF cable, you should not even think about TCP/IP, it has no jitter because its not real time. All of this talk about jitter is BS in my opinion. Just don't worry about it. There are zero scientific studies, experiments, etc. that show that any level of jitter is bad, or any is good. Without science, you can't engineer. People are entitled to have opinions that this or that component doesn't sound right, and they can claim its due to jitter being too high or too low. But its just opinion. No one will make a device that uses TCP/IP in place of SPDIF. Never will. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
