dorkus Wrote: > ah, the wonders of marketing. yes, i know they claim their "UltraLock" > is completely immunte to input jitter, but that's what it is - a claim. > if they showed spectral analysis of the jitter with varying input > sources, that would lend it some credibility. again, are you relying on > pure theory, taking their word for it, or have you actually confirmed > this with your own ears and/or seen measurements? I've seen measurements - granted they are from Benchmark's own website, so I suppose we should take them with a pinch of salt. And Andrew has pointed you at a relevant graph that shows varying input jitter has zero effect on distortion. This is exactly what you should expect given the asynchronous sample rate conversion method that Benchmark uses for its reclocking.
As for my own ears: they're probably not good enough to discern any difference that may exist. In the past I've failed to discern the difference between a 1990 vintage Philips chipset 16bit 4x oversampling DAC and a 2000 vintage Lucid DA2496, in a blind test. Call me deaf if you like. Or alternatively consider the possibility that well-implemented digital technology already exceeded the limits of what's needed in a domestic playback environment many years ago, and that worrying about the last few picoseconds of jitter is akin to debating the number of angels that fit on the head of a pin. -- cliveb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21415 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
