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In Reply to: USB digtial amp? posted by VinylNewbie on October 29, 2004 at 14:25:45:
The XR45 is digital all the way through. If you give it a S/PDIF input, there is no analog conversion. Really works well. Dead quiet. You could use a USB to S/PDIF adapter to get a long cable to it and/or reduce jitter. There are no USB input digital amps that I'm aware of.
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Also, "You could use a USB to S/PDIF adapter to get a long cable to it and/or reduce jitter."How would this reduce jitter?
Can I name some? Yes, there are two:M-Audio Transit - best for PC's
Edirol UA-1D - best for iMAC
The transit is only Toslink out, but I modify it to have coax out. I also have a version that uses a wall-wart power supply and Superclock2 for a really jitter-free clock.
If the S/PDIF cable is very short or non-existant, then it's jitter contribution is very small. The USB cable does not contribute to jitter, so it can be quite long - 25 meters max.
When you say that the coaxial cable could be non-existent, does that mean that Radio Shack RCA phono couplers, for example, could be used without any cable?RS doesn't give the specs for their coupler, but I assume I'm trying to find a 75 ohm device - but maybe because the "cable" is non-existent it really doesn't matter that much.
I've heard that a Belden 1505F/Canare RCAP cable is pretty close to 75 ohms. Maybe a short run of that would also work.
No, when I say a non-existent cable, I mean that the interface is wired internally and does not need to meet the S/PDIF specification because there is no external cable.
See the products at M-Audio , notably the Transit, Sonica Theater, and Audiophile USB. Also Creative Audigy 2 and Edirol .As for jitter, there was discussion in a recent thread .
The new Kenwood 8100 will accept streaming media over ethernet, and uses the same Equibit technology as the Panny. Unfortunately, near as I can tell it won't accept any uncompressed multichannel material, and I think you have to use their server software on the PC.Since anything streamed over ethernet would obviously run from the local clock, this is somewhat better theoretically, but being a consumer receiver you can be the clock won't be great to start with. Maybe an interesting mod target, though.
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