Originally Posted by Crion
Dpaws, why are you saying SL would be a bottleneck? It's differential is it not thus somwhat immune to interference and with good signal integrity?

Sorry Crion, first I must state that I am no expert - I'm sure others can elaborate in a far more technically coherent manner. There is some insight here : http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/documen...spdif_digital_interface_transceivers.pdf and here : http://www.scalatech.co.uk/papers/aes93.pdf

The SL is a psudo balanced SPDIF connection, not a true differential digital interface. However, its not the influence of the signal passing through the cable itself that I am referring to, it is the jitter incurred by the interface conversion process itself.

For analogue power amp users the 808.3 with internal ID40 is the optimum configuration in this respect. On the DSP side you would want an 8k with internal ID40 card, although how the two cards (one required in each speaker) might synchronise with each other is beyond my technical knowledge...