Kellen, Just to expand on DaveWr's point:
TCP/IP has flow control and error correction S/PDIF has no flow control and embeds a clock signal in the S/PDIF data stream With TCP/IP (or USB come to that) the DAC can control the rate of flow of data from the server, and uses its own local and hopefully low jitter clock to rebuild the analogue signal. With S/PDIF the DAC is a slave to clock recovered from the input datastream. Solutions for the S/PDIF problem all revolve around filtering the derived clock in some way, and runing the DAC at an average clock rate, rather than deriving every clock pulse separately from the input stream. If you are looking for DACs that can use TCP/IP and have good quality local clocks, as DaveWr points out, the are called Squeezebox. I have a transporter, and I still regard it as one of the better DACs out there. Andy -- Andy8421 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy8421's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16846 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74341 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
