Hi all Is the optical out put the best way to connect to a dac from my mac or the usb port I am thinking of getting an arcam dac on loan to see how my music from my pc will sound thanks for any help advice :cheers:
Neuphonix said:Not looking to start a 24bit Vs 16bit debate here, but I'm pretty sure that you can't send 24bit/192Hz files via the optic output. I seem to remember reading somewhere that 24/96Hz was the most it could handle.
chebby said:Neuphonix said:Not looking to start a 24bit Vs 16bit debate here, but I'm pretty sure that you can't send 24bit/192Hz files via the optic output. I seem to remember reading somewhere that 24/96Hz was the most it could handle.
It seems worse than that on optical.
From Khetan Bharadia (WHF staff) on comments page of the rDac review....
"Just wanted to clarify the signals the Arcam rDAC will accept.
USB input: up to 24bit/96kHz
Optical input : up to 24bit/48kHz
Coax input : up to 24bit/192kHz
Wireless : 24bit/44.1 kHz"
andyjm said:While not really fair, putting this in perspective, undersea cables can achieve 100Gb/s over 6000Km (with repeaters).
chebby said:andyjm said:While not really fair, putting this in perspective, undersea cables can achieve 100Gb/s over 6000Km (with repeaters).
At least you don't get oil-tanker anchors dragging through your TosLink cables and severing them!.
andyjm said:I did stuff up the maths. Getting old I guess. It should have been 1/50,000 of the speed over 1/6,000,000 of the distance.
chebby said:Neuphonix said:Not looking to start a 24bit Vs 16bit debate here, but I'm pretty sure that you can't send 24bit/192Hz files via the optic output. I seem to remember reading somewhere that 24/96Hz was the most it could handle.
It seems worse than that on optical.
From Khetan Bharadia (WHF staff) on comments page of the rDac review....
"Just wanted to clarify the signals the Arcam rDAC will accept.
USB input: up to 24bit/96kHz
Optical input : up to 24bit/48kHz
Coax input : up to 24bit/192kHz
Wireless : 24bit/44.1 kHz"
At last some one who speaks my language I think :rofl:6th.replicant said:USB is best for an rDAC, due to some clever thingy - aka "dCS asynchronous USB technology", whatever that is :? - which, in turn, is suited to OS X and iTunes because of their bit perfect-ness, I think... :shifty: