Patrick Dixon;153790 Wrote: > I'm not too sure what you're on about, but what we do is to disconnect > ALL the SB2/3 output circuitry, and replace it with our own DAC, > analogue and digital output circuits together with a linear PSU and > plenty of local regulation. I personally have always prefered the > analogue outputs of the SB+ to the SB+ fed to an external DAC, but the > customer has the choice, and in any event it sounds considerably better > that the stock SB2/3.
I find it much more plausible that the analogue outs could be improved. What I find especially hard to believe is that the digital outputs are so significantly improved by your mod that you can hear the difference played through a Benchmark. I say that simply because I'd be surprised if there's any perceptible difference between any two transports - say between a $30 DVD player and the SB+ or a $5000 CD player or what have you - when played through a good DAC. I say this because it seems clear that jitter can be entirely or almost entirely eliminated with a good DAC (see my post above). In any case, I'd be very interested to see evidence to the contrary, but that must either be a measurement or a blind test, as we know (from thousands of scientific studies) that non-blind tests are useless for this. Until I see that I wouldn't even consider buying such a mod. After seeing it I would. There are quite a few people that think like I do on this, so purely from a marketing point of view it would benefit you to in fact conduct such a blind test. Given the minimal effort involved, it's interesting (to put it kindly) that this isn't done. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29450 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
