cliveb wrote: > Pretty much everyone here accepts that S/PDIF has shortcomings. But you > seem to be trying to establish an axiom from which we must all start any > discussion that those shortcomings must necessarily degrade playback > sound quality. But there is no hard evidence that the inadequacies of > S/PDIF do actually cause any audible degradation. Just because something > is sub-optimal in theory does not make it so in practice. > <snip> >
Thanks for this. Your statement captures my understanding on this as well, particularly the jitter 'boogeyman'. jh901's statement, "The S/PDIF would introduce problems which would *negatively impact the sound quality in a meaningful way*" (emphasis added) is troublesome because it seems to assume that any S/PDIF problems will definitely negatively impact sound quality. Of course as you point out it may *theoretically* affect sound reproduction, but I'm not aware of any evidence that it does in practice and lots of rigorous evidence that it doesn't (at least not in any audible way for human beings). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97489 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
