Will I run into any clock sync issues if I daisy-chain more than 2 consumer S/PDIF devices?
I'm asking because I was reading the manual for an audio interface and it said not to daisy-chain digital audio devices without dedicated word clock connections. This made me wonder about consumer S/PDIF applications involving more than two devices. Obviously consumer-oriented devices almost never include word clock connectors, however there are products that can be daisy-chained.
For example, my FiiO BTA30 Pro has S/PDIF passthrough so you can have a setup like [Source] -> [BTA30] -> [DAC] all connected in series via TOSLINK. These will all sync properly, right?
I'm asking because I was reading the manual for an audio interface and it said not to daisy-chain digital audio devices without dedicated word clock connections. This made me wonder about consumer S/PDIF applications involving more than two devices. Obviously consumer-oriented devices almost never include word clock connectors, however there are products that can be daisy-chained.
For example, my FiiO BTA30 Pro has S/PDIF passthrough so you can have a setup like [Source] -> [BTA30] -> [DAC] all connected in series via TOSLINK. These will all sync properly, right?
Yes, it should work normally. Maybe whoever wrote that manual doesn't like daisy chaining because of jitter build-up, although far-off jitter is suppressed to some extent by S/PDIF or AES3 receivers.