How abour MSB's Data CD? They seems to take care of both the "read until right" (CDROM drive and memory buffer) and ”jitter/timing" (proprietary I2S connection by using ethernet network connection) problems?
MSB's "Pro I2S interface" is a good implementation, along with being a "computer" CD transport. This locates the Master Clock in the DAC rather than the transport. The Transport has a PLL that synchronizes to the DAC Master Clock.
This is the optimum way to do the CD transport protocol. dCS does a similar method, but not I2S.
I2S is really not necessary when using this scheme, but it simplifies the DAC to use it. I also put I2S inputs and outputs on my products, as does PSAudio, but they don't do the Master Clock in the DAC like MSB and dCS, with a clock cable going from DAC back to the Transport.
Steve N.
Empirical Audio
