In Reply to: RE: CA Review: Sonore Signature Rendu posted by Mercman on January 9, 2015 at 03:32:16:
The problem with these products is that they still use poor interfaces from the renderer to the DAC, one or more of the following
1. SPDIF with clock in the renderer
2. I2S with clock in the renderer
3. USB with its gross complexity, still leaving packet processing to the DAC although with async the clocking isn't wrong on principle.
SPDIF would be OK if the renderer could accept a word or sample clock from the DAC via another cable. Ditto for I2S if it were wired up with the clock at the slave end rather than the master end. Without getting these basics right there is no chance to get "bits are just bits".
The marketplace is still AFU 20+ years after Julia Dunn identified the jitter problems with two box CD players.
Tony Lauck
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