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In Reply to: Which is better format sonically: USB or S/DIF? posted by David Shapiro on March 28, 2007 at 18:50:53:
IMO, it is easier and takes less hardware to make USB sound better, namely going USB to I2S. Once it is S/PDIF encoded it takes a lot more hardware IMO to reduce the jitter that results. One advantage of S/PDIF is that it is easy to isolate the grounds of the two systems, eliminating ground-loops. I2S is more difficult in this respect, but still possible. With the right reclocker, they all end-up sounding identical. Reclockers like this dont come cheap though.The more important question is: how close are the master and bit-clocks to the D/A chip in the DAC? The more hardware and cabling in that gets in the way, the more the jitter will be.
Steve N.
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