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Re:Apple Surveying MacBook Pro Users About Headphone Jack an... by SoMuchToGrok on Thursday September 15, 2016 @07:30AM (#12505095)
USB is asynchronous - need to introduce timing logic. Optical is by most marks, a cleaner interface.
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Re:Apple Surveying MacBook Pro Users About Headphone Jack an... by otterley on Thursday September 15, 2016 @10:37AM (#12506493)
USB has an isochronous mode, which is used for audio streams. See, e.g., http://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4376143/Fundamentals-of-U...
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Re:Apple Surveying MacBook Pro Users About Headphone Jack an... by mbell on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:55PM (#12507740)
You still need timing logic, you have to extract the clock signal from the SPDIF signal as well.
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Re:Apple Surveying MacBook Pro Users About Headphone Jack an... by sneak on Thursday September 15, 2016 @08:00AM (#12505322)
It just sounds so much warmer without those few microseconds of jitter, y'know.
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