Core Infinity board

[Music or sound]

I have shamelessly stolen this recent quote from 'barrows' on Computer Audiophile from the 'Sonore Signature Rendu SE' thread.  For those that may not know, 'barrows' works for Sonore.

"There is nothing wrong with USB when does right, in both sender and receiver.
But, I do believe that the future will be direct ethernet input DACs.  Right now it appears that only Linn and Merging are doing that very well, other DACs with Ethernet inputs appear to be compromised on their Ethernet inputs (probably using poor Ethernet input boards from relatively affordable sources, 192 only, etc...)

What occurs to me is that the new Devialet OS Core Infinity Streamer board may well off just this, although the question remains if they will do it 'very well' or not.  Some reason for optimism I would say?

USB can sound pretty good when sender and receiver are well designed but it has an inherent flaw: lack of error correction in isosynchronous transmission . See Gordon Rankins statement http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/0...ty-varies/
Ethernet transmission (like Ravenna protocol) can allow for error correction (and potentially different USB protocols but it should be implemented at higher rates than USB2.0 allows)