Originally Posted by George Mills
This is why the ID40 on 861v6 is a significant step. The Sooloos EMAIL's the Music FILE to the 861.
And this CRITICAL clock to clock it out of Memory can be a VERY well controled low jitter DAC clock !!!
George
If you can find an earlier post than the one below, describing the potential advantages of using the ID40 in an 861/808, then go right ahead............also numerous other posts about how the ID40 works in the same thread..........no lectures required
Originally Posted by Ronnie - July 20, 2010
Simply put, there is a big difference between the 808.3 receiving a native FLAC FILE thru the ID40 and an LPCM Data STREAM thru a SPDIF Input / Output.

Whether you agree or not, this difference has the POTENTIAL to offer Audible differences, as the 808.3 is receiving a Time-Independent File (thru ID40) and not a Time-Based Data Stream (over SPDIF).

As regards the PCM Streaming over Ethernet issue, I was short-handedly referring to PCM generation at the PC, where sometimes people are using NAS boxes and under-powered PC's to do the conversion "on the fly", leading to issues. Likewise the known issues about how the SB devices handle PCM at the Input stages. But these issues have already been covered ad nausea in the SqueezeCentre forums, so I'm just going to leave it there

Just to be clear, I was NOT referring to Jitter generation over the Cable or Wifi Transfer of the Ethernet Packets

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