ElEsido
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Great, atsukita, thanks for sharing!
HMM, Please bear with me but WHAT is a METAL S/PDIF Out???
Coax as oppose to optical, both are SPDIF.
HMM, Please bear with me but WHAT is a METAL S/PDIF Out???
Now, what generally are the benefits to 'coaxing' an iRiver H1xx?? or is that fodder for another thread?
As I understand it, the advantage of straight electrical SPDIF is that there's no jitter introduced from the transition to optical and back. The DISadvantage is that electrical cables are more prone to electrical interference, unless properly shielded. I could be off a bit here, but that seems to be the gist of it.
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Quote:Optical in irivers is not very good, that's true. However, you can mod h1x0 to have a coax spdif output (actually there is a coax out pad on the PCB, all you need is to rewire it to one of the jacks), and that will somewhat improve things. As well, if you use a good DAC with good jitter handling and good coax cable, you will get pretty good sound. There is no alternative to h1x0 as a portable digital source.
Do you have a pic of where this is on the board? I would like to mod one of my 120s.
So, i'm a new lucky owner of a rockboxed (3.7.1) H132 and have a few questions
-i have a FLAC folder with 16bits/44,1 and 24bits/96 files. Should i convert them before transferring to the iriver and what would be the more convenient way ?
-is there anyway to use the remote and external DAC (d12) or portable amp at the same time ?
Edit : it seems that i can plug a normal jack in the optical line out. So i guess it's also a true line-out where i can put a portable amp ?
Is an H132 an H120 with a 32GB CF mod?