Very well said. As for transports, well, everyone has their favorite. The Ayre is an absolutely first-rate piece of gear and quite good enough for a senior reviewer. Or, are we to assume that the person making the list of "high transports" has tried each and every one in a perfectly controled, double-blind environment?
But the fact remains: the Lavry Blue, Gold, and now the DA10 are essentially immune from jitter and, as expained, deal with it after buffering incoming information. Above post: you're right, Lavry is fairly unique in handling things in this manner. What you get doesn't sound like the transport; it sounds like the DAC -- and the DAC is accurate. opaqueice;137932 Wrote: > Maui, you seem to be confused about what jitter is. Rather than try to > unconfuse you, I'll just answer your question. > > Here is a very easy way to completely eliminate all transport jitter: > simply take a DAC with a buffer larger than 800mb (the size of a CD). > Play the CD into the buffer and record all the bits. Unless the > transport is broken or the CD is scratched, this produces a bit-perfect > copy. > > Now play out the buffer using the internal clock of the DAC. The only > jitter which will affect the sound coming out is caused by variations > in the clock of the DAC. That's much less than jitter induced by > travelling down a noisy cable, it's got nothing to do with the > transport, and it's unavoidable anyway in any D/A process. > > Of course this would mean you don't hear anything for an hour after you > hit play - not very convenient. The Lavry uses a more clever version of > this idea so you don't have to wait. -- highdudgeon SB3->Lavry DA10->Nuforce 9.02s->Harbeth Monitor 30s/Skylan stands. Simple and satisfying. In a larger room, I would move back to larger speakers, subs, and probably RCS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ highdudgeon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2195 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27452 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
