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I2S, too nitche...

I have read about it, I know it is a DAC chip's native protocol, if you will, but at this point there aren't so many dacs that have the port, and not everyone is going to be up to modding their gear... hehe, one wrong move and you have an expensive paper weight, or that is what many believe.

I think that s/pdif works pretty well as a universial standard, and it works well over longer runs... can I2S go more than a few feet?

I don't know... I like these USB dacs that have the usb/digital(s/pdif,I2S) conversion inside the dac. This can basically eliminate alot of these jitter problems that pop up with s/pdif and it sure is convenient. I see this as the future more than mass acception of I2S as an alternitive to s/pdif... at least with PC audio.


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