> > The optical link commonly being used for S/P-DIF is TosLink and it > > seems like it can be the cause of many problems. It seems like some > > care in doing the optical link setup is needed. I have never digged > > into why the optical links have that problem. I can only guess, but > > bad optical coupling seems reasonable. The multimode > "fiber" seems to > > be leaving one or two things to ask for. > > > > Cheers, > > Magnus > > > > > Hej Magnus > > Relatively high jitter being one problem. > Limited sampling rate being another. > > If one has a cheap 16 bit sound card what will it do with 24 > bit data from an external ADC? > >
I would imagine that the sound card is just being used as a digital bus interface, and the A/D won't feature into it. Kind of depends on whether the device driver for the sound card accepts anything on the S/PDIF or whether it assumes 16 bits. I think S/PDIF is 20bits/sample, but there's probably a 24 bit flavor. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
