Are the proprietary opital links between manufacturer's transport/DACs interchangable
Sorry for the long question, but having seen multiple instances of these proprietary links between a manufacturer's transport or SACD player and DAC (e.g., Esoteric ES-Link, EMM labs link, dCS link), I doubt that these cannot be re-engineered or there is some standard so that connecting transports and DACs from different manufacturers is possible. I know of the concern from SONY to protect the SACD format, but these optical link cables are not that sophisticated.
Does anyone have information about this topic?
Thank-you in advance - Gerry
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