On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:23:44AM -0600, pl bossart wrote: > > So I'm not sure we can idle at 0s as a general rule, but as I have very > > limited test hardware (namely my laptop and couple other machine which > > aren't really meant for testing!), I can't really say this with any > > degree of confidence. > I'll do more testing later today. I could see some issues with > networking or interfaces like S/PDIF or HDMI, where the receiver needs > to relock. But for local playback we should be fine. You will still Not always - anything which doesn't bias the outputs to zero volts (and even some things that do) is likely to have some pop/click or delay issues on powerup. Newer hardware will generally do better here but not everyone uses the latest shiny.
