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hello folks
in the persuit of being able to play hi-rez through my Buffalo 9008 (and 9032 in a week or so) I manged to hook up to my musicservers motherboard via the on board spdif output.
so now I´m running BOTH opticis optical usb(with proper psu) and 10m spdif (of decent quality) up from my musicserver in the basement and into the Buffalo.
at the flick of a few dipswitches I´m now able to A/B the 2 different connections:
the spdif much to my surprise sounds crisper and a little less "dull" than the usb.despite that jitter-wise the spdif is supposed to be inferior according to some sources
the bonus is of course that the spdif will transfer hi-rez as well.
so that was a positive experience for me
any other views on the matter?
I´m running ASUS P5K-E with quad6600 intel 4gb ram vista ultimate 32 bit raptor system discs,buffalo 9008(and soon 9032)
S&B TVC Borderpatrol inspired 6c45/300B Hoerning OPT monos into Avantgarde Trio with Bert Doppenberg custom twin 15 inch 320liters matrix bass towers
and Rod Elliot based ELF JBL 2245 below 45hz
best
Leif
Norway
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I would tend to prefer the SPDIF especially over long runs. It is just much more flexible in terms of sample rate too.
If you are just doing 44.1Khz or 48khz over a short run then USB is fine.
The nice thing about the Sabre is that the DPLL SPDIF input makes it easily as good as PCM.
Cheers!
Russ
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great
makesit a whole lot easier as well!
best
Leif
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