> Viventis wrote: >> There should be no difference at all. Digital is digital. Your >> receiver's DAC will decode each the same.
On 24 July 2012 17:21, lovejoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I beg to differ. Getting the 1s and 0s from your Touch to your DAC is > quite a challenge [...] over the poorly designed interfaces that are TOSLINK > and SPDIF. I'll give you the poorly designed part, but on the whole the bits get from here to there just fine. If they didn't, the various encoded multi-channel formats wouldn't work at all. The only remotely tricky part is the timing, which does not matter that much in a pure playback context since the receiver can and usually does a small amount of buffering. If the digital signal should become corrupted for any reason, the sound will do something drastic like drop out for a half a second. Believe me, you'd notice. Optical will get you electrical isolation between the components, which can definitely be a plus, if you have problems with RF interference or noisy power. The downside is that you need optical-electrical converters at both ends, which may or may not make the practically irrelevant timing issues a little worse in theory. > [...] It's not something I could pick up quickly in an A/B test, Exactly. C. _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
