Phil Leigh;698438 Wrote: 
> (in very simple terms) SPDIF is an analogue signal that represents the
> data (the bitstream) in an encoded format including an embedded clock
> signal. like all signals it can be clean or dirty (contain noise and
> distortion). The dirtiier that signal is, the harder the spdif receiver
> circuit/chip in the DAC has to work to accurately recover the clock (the
> music data is not a problem).

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

That being the case, would switching to the optical out be a cleaner
solution?


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