Deaf Cat Wrote: > OK thinking about it, maybe just a transport would be best, in a small > heavy box, then we can choose our own DAC to suit our particular > tastes..... > > Mind you in saying that, I'm afraid I don't quite understand the hi end > transport side of things with jitter and stuff like that. The DAC1 does > this not sort the jittering? And I thought the SB was pretty low on > jitter anyway.....sorry don't really know what I'm talking about so > will be silent for a while now:)
The problem is not exactly the SB output, it's the digital audio connection from the SB to the external DAC. A better solution is to have a DAC very close to the SB, connected with an I2S or similar connection. This is better because I2S has a dedicated clock line. In plain language, it has several wires running running from the source to the receiver, and one of those carries a clock signal, while the others carry data. In contrast, standard SPDIF (like the SB digital out going to an external DAC) has only one wire which carries both the clock and the data. While clever and economical, this has the unfortunate effect of allowing the data to interfere with the clock and cause timing errors (that's jitter). The SB internal DAC is connected in this better way (it uses the I2S connection), but clearly the components such as the DAC chip and analogue stage could be upgraded, and so that's what I would want in an audiophile version. All that said, I suspect the differences in sound quality are pretty minimal, and what I'd really like to see first is a computer-based room-correction plugin for SS. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24732 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
