I think you'll find that its the correlated jitter that is the problem - in the same way that level-related noise pumping is really annoying with DBX companding, whereas Dolby (B) is just dull...(sorry - best analogy I could come up with).
The uncorrelated (to the music) jitter is less intrusive - hence the "jitter scrambling" techniques of Altmann et al... Now this could all be hokum...but I'd swear that it makes a positive difference in my system. I don't have access to any high-end CDP's anymore (sold them all!) so it's hard for me to compare, but I am 110% positive that the SB2 (& 3) is a better transport than all of the ones I've owned/tried in the including some pretty funky esoterica! BUT - and its a big but - this was all tested over several months with the Altmann JISCO & UPCI in the chain (SB-TACT-"altmann boxes"-DAC) vs CDP-"altmann boxes"-DAC - nothing else was changed in the system although lots of CDP's (Linn, Naim, Chord, Meridian) and a few DACS were tried (dCS, Chord, MF etc) Also the differences (as a transport) were very small - maybe non-existant in some cases. As I'd already bought the altmann boxes, I never tested what happend if I pulled them out of the chain. It's possible that these little boxes were eliminating the differences in the transports? -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24670 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
