It’s not HDMI, it’s the "I2S protocol" See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I²S And here is Paul owner of PS Audio explaining it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrRV7hAKiIQ |
Yes i noted. As some say, google is your friend. So, IS2 hammer both coaxial and aes/ebu balanced digital connection it seems!? If so i don't get why there's only one port for IS2 on the dac i ordered. If jitter is zero and bandwidth is top, you'd like to connect a streamer and a transport to IS2. Nobody is pulling cables back and forth so this is annoying. Now it seems balanced digital is better than coaxial, so best would probably be to use a transport using IS2 for a streamer and a balanced digital for transport, or am i making the wrong assumption? |
I use Mogami 2964 / Canare RCA coaxial from enoaudio bought at Amazon for ~$40. Running between Node2i and RME ADI-2 DAC. I have run RME bit test between these components on both the coaxial and another Toslink and the transmission is 100% correct. Even if you spent $40,000 on a super-exotic cable you wouldn't beat the 100% correctness result. Which tells me I could have gotten an even cheaper cable on B&H (Hosa?) |
I just found 2 digital aes/ebu sets i used back in 2002. One brand i don't remember, the other one is signal cable. I also found 2 custom made Krell cast cables. Perhaps i should try and see how these two digital cables work first. If i don't hear much difference, i probably should skip my urge for better (more expensive) ditos. However, i am curious of Inakustiks 2404 https://www.in-akustik.de/en/cables-and-accessories/reference-selection/digital-cable/reference-digi... I contacted the reseller of the Nuprime combo, he actually suggested to move up from CDT-8 Pro to CDT 10 instead of more "exotic cables". Btw, how does Nordost Heimdall 2 sound? Are they thin in lower mid and bass? I remember the older Nordost were good match for bass heavy systems |
