RAVENNA The new benchmark in consumer digital audio systems

[jussi_laako (Jussi Laako (Signalyst))]

Wait till you hear a DSD 256 5.1 channel recording through a fully active 3 way 5.1 channel system (with no downsampling to PCM). All you’ll need is a NUC, switch, 6 fiber Ethernet cables, and the 6 speaker boxes (7 with 2 subs), and you’ll be in action. The Zman is the only board on the market that allows a system like this to be possible.

Unfortunately AES67/Ravenna distributes clock itself over ethernet and then it is reconstructed at the DAC side using DPLL. Because there can be only one master clock. So it is not jitter-immune in that sense. Unlike for example NAA that doesn’t distribute any clock over network, but that poses limitation that there can be only one DAC with a local master clock.

But I can play 8 channel DSD256 to my exaSound e28 over NAA connection without problem. But AES67 and NAA are completely different kind of protocols, practically nothing in common.