Mnyb wrote: > But even then it migth not actually stop the light ? > > In the toslink/spdiff standard there is some kind of idle signal IE > light and carrier wave is still on , correctly designed equipment detect > this as no sound , but some DAC's and recievers simplistically uses the > light itself as an indicator for "on" . > > On SB3 or Transporter this option also serve the purpose to defat > another common design flaw in DAC's , by keeping the signal "on" the DAc > does not loose lock off the incoming data , that in itself is not a > problem , but some DAC's have design flaws where they emit static or > short burst of noise when this happens .
Hi Mnyb, I tried it out on a pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xm_wWXhqO4 It does actually kill the light on the pi/piCorePlayer/Digi+ OP: search old posts, we've asked for this in the past re: the Touch, never happened. 'AudioSystem' (http://bit.ly/1ruj0Zw) - 'YouTube' (http://bit.ly/1ULq4fT) - 'Twitter' (http://bit.ly/1q8dTgc) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sckramer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20311 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106034 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
