I'm trying to get my head round Bryston's claim that its BDP-1 digital player, which does not stream but plays material on attached USB drive(s), extracts raw data rather than music files from the drive. I am under the impression that both streaming and USB involves sending music files. Does anyone know about this? Below is a quote from Bryston's James Tanner that states their claim:
"One important point is we are processing raw digital data at USB
input not Music 1 or Music 2 streaming The concern over asynchronous versus synchronous has to do with the use of the USB to stream audio class one or two from a Source to a DAC. These concerns do not have any effect on the use of USB to transfer data from a storage device, thumb drive or hard drive, to the CPU over the USB bus. When a disc volume (USB) is connected to the BDP-1 Digital Player we are transferring computer data and not streaming audio from that drive. In other words, we are extracting bits without any worry over file corruption or inducement of "jitter" to the file."
I understand that there is such a thing as class 1 and class 2 music streaming but that the latter refers to the ability of Win7 and OS10.6 to bypass internal mixers and deliver a bit perfect signal.
Any input appreciated.
