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The guys doing the article on the Grace m902 mentioned problems with the USB, and then the reply from the manufacture said this might have been a configuration issue.

That's what they said. In the case of the Grace review, we used 4 different computers -- Wes's G5, my PowerBook, and two different PCs -- all configured correctly.

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Any update on this? Isn't this the future, getting rid of SPDIF and sending the bits in a more friendly error correcting method?

The problem with USB transmission is that it is very difficult to arrange for low-jitter clocking at the DAC, given the asynchronous nature of the interface. I am told that there is a way of allowing the local DAC clock to control the sending of data in the USB spec but no-one yet uses it.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile

OK, here's how out of it I can be...

I saw Grace m902 and figured it was either a vintage tonearm or cartridge article, or that the company had released a new version of one of those itmes.

Time for me to Google "Grace m902."

John Marks writes about it here.

Buddha - That's a Grace m902 in my avatar.

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Buddha - That's a Grace m902 in my avatar.

Well, if it can do that for your head, I'm getting one for my codpiece!

The (m) in m902 must stand for merkin.

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The (m) in m902 must stand for merkin.

Nah, that looks like it's Jeff's real hair.

Yupper, we must be OLD, I remebr Grace arms also. That's exactly what Ithought...see I ain't all that bad.