i'm of the opinion that whilst jitter and digital domain signal transmission are important, once you get jitter under 200ps then you effectively have that sorted and you start to hit the 'diminishing returns' wall. of far more importance is the nature of the digital filters and analogue output stage. of course as an audiophile i have nothing objective to back this opinion up with just the observation that those cd players / dacs that pay a lot of attention to digital filtering and the analogue output stage seem to sound better (to my ears) than those that don;t (i'm talking multiple power regulation, massive power transformers, funky 'audiophile' components, etc.) even if the 2 players compared use the same transport mechanisms and dac chips - which to be honest below a certain price most do (phillips transport and burr brown or crystal dacs)of course i'm also of the opinion that 1 bit dacs and delta sigma decoding are the work of beelzebub so what do i know... cheers
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