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Hello~

In addition to my Sooloos setup, I also enjoy the beauty of simplicity of Airplay, taking an advantage of additional coaxial input in the master speaker.

I use Apple Airport Express as an airplay source, which only has optical output, where my DSP only takes coaxial input. So I bought cheap optical-to-coaxial converter to do the magic, and it is working, but it is highly suspicious that this converter is causing various SQ issues, (more jitters and etc) as well as some connectivity issues, as music disconnects from time to time, even the signal is max.

To resolve this problem, I thought about idea of adding DDC (digital-to-digital converter) which is will reduce jitter, and also re-clock sample rate to the max that my DSP can process, which should improve overall SQ.

Has anyone tried this Airplay-DDC setup with DSP? And are there any DDC product that has optical input? (majority of DDC inputs are USB, as this is most used for PC-FI.)

And please enlighten me if I am think (doing) something wrong here.

Appreciate your thoughts in advance.