In an NS01, in what state does the digital signal leave the unit?

Posted by: Cjones on 01 July 2008

Specifically, where in the process in the clock function? Is this something that is only active for local analog and the digital coax out such that the data that is sent out via cat5e/6, is actually impacted by the clock of the say, NNP 01/02 or Netstream speakerlinx?

Posted on: 02 July 2008 by David Dever

The digital signal sent out coax/optical is generated in software as a separate, identical stream to playout zone 1–see the white paper on the HDX page (this is largely applicable to the NS-series servers as well).

There is no system-wide master wordclock in a DigiLinX system, so there is no reason to expect that a remote room amplifier would affect the local playout zone performance of a network server. That said, however, I've never compared sound quality of streams proxied via SpeakerLinX versus those proxied by NNP01, played out a different room amplifier....

Posted on: 02 July 2008 by Cjones

Thank you