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cliveb wrote: > I agree with your sentiments, so let us focus on technical merits. > Digital out via HDMI may well be convenient, but I am worried about its > merits. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that > the jitter levels of typical HDMI implementations are catastrophically > high. Regular readers here will know that I am sceptical about the > significance of jitter, but even I would baulk at the thought of using > an interface which typically exhibits jitter at the thousands of pS > level. Properly implemented asynchronous USB seems to be the future > interface of choice (although I personally am happy with SPDIF). I may be spoilt by the meridian HD621 hdmi audio processor! That deals with most of this . And it is a fixable problem , a good hdmi implementation would deal with it . Compare the situation with USB interface a surprisingly large amount of them or not very good,but there is a large portion of well implemented solutions ,this was not the case a couple of years ago . The fact that audiophiles seems to praise *every* USB input is another issue ? I suppose well implement hdmi will be more common in the future . Beside if you heard a good discrete multichannel recording the jitter discussion would fade :) that is a big difference in my world. And due to varius paranoia at the content providers hdmi is the only standard consumer interface that offers discrete multichannel , so that is what we have like it or not . I could use one of my leftover MHR inputs for 3*spdiff in my processor but that is hardly standard ? Not many processor or ht reciever has such inputs . OT if I want to listen to my DVDA discs on my system I use a MHR interface ( 3*spdiff with proprietary meridian protocol ) And not hdmi from my DVDA player to my processor, this interface was invented before the hdmi standard offered this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
