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In Reply to: Re: Connect DAC direct via USB or Optical? posted by edward on December 30, 2006 at 11:54:43:
> AFAIK the PS Audio Link III converts the USB input to
> S/PDIF before it goes to the DAC.Why in the world would they convert to S/PDIF once
the signal is **inside** the box? That would be an
awful kludge, surprising from the likes of PS Audio.
Follow Ups:
> Where did you hear that?OK, I found a similar claim on the Web.
http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/index.php?topic=29841.msg265447(Presumably the poster meant 'the new Bel Canto DAC 3'
rather than 'DAC 2').
This is a quote from Paul McGowan from the PS Audio website forum (not their AA forum):-----"The audio from your computer is sent via the usb audio standard to our dac. It does have buffering and error correction. We then convert it to S/PDIF to avoid the internal dac that is in the usb chip. At this point, the signal is treated just like any other input to the dac."-----
> This is a quote from Paul McGowan. . .Well, at least the Link III has that SRC4192 chip just
before the DAC, so there's probably no significant sonic
effect to going through S/PDIF. (OTOH, some folks are
allergic to ASRCs, just on principle. ;-> )
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