JohnSwenson wrote: > There is no way to tell which connection method is going to be the best > before hand, you just have to try them. There are far to many variables > in implementation and cables to make generic judgements. > > No, the transporter is not being clocked by the Cary, it's a one way > connection between the Transporter and the Cary. IF the Cary had a word > clock output the Transporter could be slaved to it, but from reading the > website I see no mention made of a wordclock output. So most likely > there is a traditional receiver in the Cary which uses a PLL to extract > the clock from the digital signal coming from the Transporter. This is > almost guaranteed to be significantly higher jiter than the internal > clock in the Cary. The sales literature spends time talking about how > low jitter the internal clock is, but nothing about how good the input > receiver is, so it's probably fairly generic. (If a company has spent > effort making a very low jitter receiver they usually make a big deal > about it, the Cary does not) > > The upshot is that there is not a lot you can do about it, try the three > different connection methods and see what you like the best, stick with > that. > > I am the one who is not particularly fond of AES/EBU, sometimes it can > sound the best, but my experience has been that in a lot of cases it is > NOT the best sounding interface. > > John S. for what it's worth, I'm not fond of AES/EBU either. It is often poorly implemented at incorrect or incompatible voltage levels. THere can also be grounding issues and there is no galvanic isolation.
Where it works well is in professional location recording setups with runs of hundreds of feet of cable and/or harsh physical environments with rampant RFI/EMI from generators etc. It is worth noting thAt in such situations, reliability is more important than ultimate sound quality. As garym mentioned it was after all designed purely to reuse those very expensive 300ft drums of xlr-xlr cable snakes that pros have... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95476 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
