cliveb;147077 Wrote: > ..Of course, what the actual mechanism for any effect happens to be is > not important to the listener: if the act of reading a spinning optical > disc can affect the sound, then perhaps a no-moving-parts device like > the SB is indeed an improvement. > ...
Exactly, my point and probably that of others. Now lets speculate what could be the reason - different players used as transport sound different. Conclusion - jitter. Also, jitter reduction devices like the Big Ben and jitter-rejecting DAC like the Lavry all use a memory buffer. This is the reason why people suspect that there is no buffer in the player or it is inadequate. Surprisingly, Stereophile concluded that the Big Ben reduced the jitter, but better transports sounded better thru it. The Big Ben designer was around for the review but he or the stereophile reviewer did not have a theory on how this could happen. PhilNYC, who posts here, thinks that the Dodson DAC (which supposedly has a buffer for jitter rejection) sounds different with different transports. BTW, where in the Prism paper does it say, jitter is not affected ? SOrry, I did not peruse it thorougly. A simple experiment which measures jitter at the digital output of a transport with different CD pressings would settle the matter. No listening test needed. Re: your signature line. Recordings that were mixed in analog and finally converted to CD or DSD sound the best to me. Also, sound engineers who use a good quality clock for their ADCs mention that the sound quality is much better. So reducing jitter either during recording or during playback should be a priority for high-fidelity sound reproduction. -- SoftwireEngineer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SoftwireEngineer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7000 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28621 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
