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Re: PC =) AES / EBU

>My assumption would be that the best way, jitter, ground, etc. wise
>would be to hook things up through an AES interface
No, the Benchman DAC1 is well built, which means it doesn't use the raw clock as extracted from the digital stream (would it be AES/EBU or optical) but recreates a new low-jitter clock based onto the raw clock (to be read by techies only: use of a low-pass filtered PLL, a low jitter VCC, and a FIFO as elastic data store). So no jitter concern. Few ground concern either, as the AES/EBU standard requires a low capacitance transformer .
As for the optical output of the G5, it solves all remaining problems in these matters. A low cost optical conduit (plastic) will do the job fine between the G5 and the DAC1. Useless to have diamond fiber optics and other "high end" optical interconnect : the well defined level of the G5 optical output and the reclocking in the DAC1 make them work fine on any interconnect, (as it should be on any "high-end" equipment...).

I do think that the best (in terms of quality and ease of use) and less expensive solution would be to have the DAC1 optical input fixed .


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