23 Aug
2004
23 Aug
'04
9:33 a.m.
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:03:20 +0200, Tim Orford wrote:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 05:42:27PM +0800, Alexander
MacLennan wrote:
In pracice decent AD converts should be good at locking onto clocks, a
couple of years ago I sent a tarball of the linux kernel saved as a
redbook audio file over SPDIF (played on a cheap CD player) on a very
long, out of spec coax cable to my hammerfall (as a test to make sure the
cabling was OK) and it came through bit perfect.
- Steve
Ah, I was assuming that the I/O was analogue
yes its true that the CMI8738 is not great at analogue. But even
there it has the advantage that it doesnt have the horrendous
resampler that the Creative cards have.
But for $10US for a card based on these, would the clock be very tight?
doubtful :-)
but i dont imagine they could be bad enough to prevent an spdif lock,
and as long as your D/A has a decent pll to smooth out the jitter,
you should be ok.