AES/EBU Connection

[plum]

Many thanks for the responses, as suggested, Apogee's own version would probably be the best comparison and reasonably priced to boot.
The Deltron may be worth a punt though so I will investigate those too.

Regards

Steve

 

[stickman]

A new Apogee Wyde-Eye XLR is about £50-£60 with shipping and iimport tax direct from Apogee.

I appreciate this may come under the heading of stating the blood obvious, but with ...........

Always use AES/EBU where possible

there is the implicit caveat of "when using comparable cables".

I ask because I prefer the sound of a silver-bulleted AZ MC2 with a cheap phono-BNC converter attached to that of the Wyde-Eye XLR between transport/dac.

 

[I-S]

The Deltron cable is Farnell 430390. As the cable is about £2/m (in 200m quantities), and a pair of similar XLRs runs around £11, £13 for the built cable seems a perfectly good deal, no need for DIYing.

 

[wadia-miester]

Sticky,

prehaps, the A/z is better sounding cable the Apogee then!!!.
FMPE, I found the Wide eyed 'Adequate' you guys could try the VDH 110' studio reference which is slightly cheaper, it was the one you guys tried to catch me out on when you came for a visit at the beginning of the year.
It's about the best 'off the shelf' pro/diy item we liked, its about £9@m I think.

 

[MartinC]

A new Apogee Wyde-Eye XLR is about £50-£60 with shipping and iimport tax direct from Apogee.

I got mine direct from Apogee in the UK, so no import tax issues:

http://www.apogeeuk.com/

Although I must admit It took a while as they kept having problems with such a small order.

 

[Paul Ranson]

S/PDIF is remarkably similar to video, similar voltages, same impedances, terminated coaxial transmission lines. No problem at all, especially over small distances. AES/EBU was intended to use standard professional audio cabling and connectors. In a broadcast or studio environment you have a ready supply of both sorts of cable as patchcord or tie line.

I think the problems arise with sloppy implementations and dodgy connectors.

Self clocking synchronous serial connections are very standard things and the data always comes out the other end complete. It's just audiophiles who need to worry about things finding things to worry about. Unless you have a sloppy connection and a dodgy connector of course...

Paul

 

[adam]

you guys could try the VDH 110' studio reference which is slightly cheaper

Thats the cable I use for transport to DAC,is very reasonably priced,I tried it against the SPIDF,sounded the same to me,but for the price,about £40,well worth a try.

 

[MartinC]

Spotted this today if anyone's interested:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10632&item=3851824592&rd=1

 

[GTM]

Isaac, surely if you combine clock and data you're always going to have the high jitter susceptabilty of SPDIF? IEEE1394 (used for various proprietary high rez digital interfaces) gets around the problem by being asynchronous so no need to transmit a clock signal. I thought USB was similar?

Michael.

PS: I wonder if any cable company has already created "audiophile" IEEE1394 cables...that would be worth a laugh!

In the telecoms industry the datastream is framed, the frames are used to derive the clocking signal. Current transmission speeds are up to 10Gb/s. With much faster in the pipline. Admittedly over distance they are reclocked but the received data rate has to be within limits or else the receiving box can't retransmit the data error free.

If you're interested do a google search for SDH

GTM

 

[Sgt Rock]

You work in telecoms too then GTM ?

 

[GTM]

You work in telecoms too then GTM ?

Yep, since 1988.

Had a couple of years unemployed after the crash, but been back in work for just over a year now.

GTM