Digital Drive

Posted by Lesage (A) on August 05, 2017 at 00:00:25

In Reply to: RE: For analog balanced output ex a DAC, is there any significant difference between RCA unbalanced DAC input to XLR input? posted by John C. - Aussie on August 04, 2017 at 22:39:28

The "AES/EBU" digital input is flexible and tolerant, so that with an appropriate cable or adapter, you may connect a RCA, ie : "S/PDIF", digital output from a digital source, and it may work fine.
Or not at all.


However, the "S/PDIF" connection to "AES/EBU" digital input may be less qualitative than expected. While working fine at first sight, you may experience some audible imperfections at the dac's outputs. These imperfections are related to the source and dac's electronics, the cable lenght and impedance, and the adapter.


So it is up to you to try and decide how much effort is worth the result