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Originally Posted by zing
I thought ( but I am not sure on this as its not my field) that as long as enough information is passed digitally even if slightly corrupted gets corrected ?
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Nope, there's no parity or error correction on SPDIF unlike newer systems (like AES) it does have a few extra bits in it's 20bit format but they're used for equipement type and copy protection codes. Remember also that SPDIF isn't synched as it's one way only so does have a sync fallback but still can't correct errors (instead it just misses out the corrupt section)
In this case though I suggested it purely due to it's supression of analogue harmonics whether you use coaxial (some motherboards do have SPDIF co-axial) or Optical is dependant on what's available and what you're plugging it into