Reactcore
1000+ Head-Fier
Oops you seemed to have been landed on a HiFi freak's forumI find it hard to get motivated by these arcane discussions about whether optical is better than USB or SPDIF or whatever. Any of these interfaces has a million times lower distortion than the lowest distortion headphone or speaker on the planet. When I stream a high Rez album on Qobuz, it could be traveling thousands of miles through hundreds of links, who knows how many transmitters are involved. Yet barring a technical glitch in my local internet, I get the original file intact bit by bit perfect. End of story. If you want to solve the really hard problems in high fidelity, focus on the headphone or speaker design problem. That’s where the challenges lie. Headphones are so bad a transducer and distort so badly, it’s a joke. On control your room resonances. Trying to minimize absolutely trivial amounts of digital noise on a 1 meter optical or USB link is so silly, all my CS and ECE colleagues will laugh themselves to death over it. Heck, we can receive beautiful pristine images from the James Webb telescope that is now 1 million miles away from Earth. Heck, we can detect two galaxies colliding billions of light years away releasing more energy in one collision than all the observable matter in the universe using LIGO detectors. The engineering challenges here are so formidable that they took decades to solve to make sure the measurements are not corrupted by noise. Worrying over digital noise in a 1 meter cable is really wasting time over an absolute triviality.
Just my $0.02! Feel free to ignore me and continue this discussion.
We are merely discussing why a user's streamer wont do 192k files on optical and trying to see if a different cable choice might do the trick lol