azinck3 Wrote: > A hard drive's digital performance is a non-issue in this discussion. > Due to the error detection, correction, and redundancy throughout any > properly designed computer, data is able to travel speedily and > accurately to any component. The hard-drive isn't the device that's > generating the spdif stream. The quality of the output device (be it > the sound card or squeezebox or whatever) is what has to be called into > question. The output device is going to get perfectly accurate > information in plenty of time, but if it's cheap it might not be able > to lay down a very "pretty" spdif signal (poor edges, bad timing).
Oh, certainly I agree with that: but I'm not the one writing stuff like: stereotimes Wrote: > > Moreover, it stores songs on memory-based solid state, akin to using > flash, which the guys from Nova state "induces nearly zero jitter and > certainly less than a hard drive." > So, the claim is that flash memory has less jitter than a hard drive, implying a hard drive has jitter that affects the audio stream... heck, it implies flash does, too, just "less". Next we'll have have to find out which sort of dynamic RAM introduces jitter, and heck, may as well claim Intel CPU's have less jitter than AMD (or is it the other way around...) (What they mean by storing it on "solid state, akin to using flash" is interesting... that implies it is not flash, and it's not a hard drive... what the heck, do they have 100G of battery backed DRAM in there? Oooh, or core! I miss core!) Pure snake oil. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24957 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
