Popular Post krass Posted January 10 Popular Post Share Posted January 10 25 minutes ago, Weerstandje said: Sorry for the late response Recently I talked to a fellow audiophile about the fibre-optic connection I made between my switches with sfp modules. We also discussed timing. He to said something about moving packets around, sometimes even in the wrong order and them still arriving safely at the streamer. He claimed that timing faults in the audio stream would lead to dropouts sooner then jitter effects. I wondered if audio-streaming is called streaming because, as opposed to file transfer, a pcm stream does not come in packages. For the same reason CD-s have to be ripped to an aif- or wav-file on disk because cd’s only contain the stream and have no checksum? If the later is true, streaming over glasfiber would be more prone to jitter, due to the bending of the cable giving light-reflections inside the cable, than streaming over an ethernet cable. Just like spdif is preferred over toslink as a connection between streamer and dac for instance? That made me wonder in what format music is streamed over the internet before it reaches the streamer and the dac? an “internet stream” is still sent as packets of information, and the packets will still have an associated packet-protocol with headers, footers, counters, checksums etc. They arrive in your house at the modem just like any other packets of internet data. Your modem/ network/ routers will send the correct packets to your music system that requested them. Your player still has to receive the packets, check them, unwrap them, buffer them etc. TheFlash, Weerstandje, Superdad and 1 other 1 3 Grimm Mu-1 > Mola Mola Makua/DAC > Luxman m900u > Vivid Audio Kaya 90 Link to comment
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