btw, i read on your site "After five years, Windows still has NO native USB Audio Class 2.0 support" well now the latest win10 has native USB 2.0 support. is there a patch for patching existing instalations of win10? also i wonder how can the amanero USB be better than pinkFaun i2s since it is the shorter path (maybe you just need to buffer the i2s signal with lukas fikus fetishizator if your cables are too long - is the pinkfaun output already bufferd? correct me on this one if it is)
It's all about the jitter. The Amanero board puts out about 12ps of jitter. Because the noDAC gets connected directly to the Amanero's I2S lines, no extra jitter is added.
pinkFaun i2s has some other jitter value (I don't really know how much..). I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be a lot more than 12ps since it is based on a PC soundcard DSP. They were not famous for their low jitter values - they were not designed with audiophiles in mind. Plus the conversion from TTL I2S to LVDS I2S adds jitter.. And then you have to convert it back to TTL I2S (read: even more jitter). And all that for what?
Regarding the Fikus stuff, don't believe the hype. There are high performance extremenly low jitter ICs that are actually designed to buffer high speed signals such as I2S with almost no added jitter (fS levels of added jitter). This "fetishizator" bears no resemblance to these chips and I do not mean that in a good way. But even then, to transfer I2S signals reliably over long distances (over a few cm) you really need to convert to LVDS.
pinkFaun i2s has some other jitter value (I don't really know how much..). I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be a lot more than 12ps since it is based on a PC soundcard DSP. They were not famous for their low jitter values - they were not designed with audiophiles in mind. Plus the conversion from TTL I2S to LVDS I2S adds jitter.. And then you have to convert it back to TTL I2S (read: even more jitter). And all that for what?
Regarding the Fikus stuff, don't believe the hype. There are high performance extremenly low jitter ICs that are actually designed to buffer high speed signals such as I2S with almost no added jitter (fS levels of added jitter). This "fetishizator" bears no resemblance to these chips and I do not mean that in a good way. But even then, to transfer I2S signals reliably over long distances (over a few cm) you really need to convert to LVDS.
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