Patrick Dixon;230089 Wrote: > It isn't just the absolute noise level that determines whether something > is audible or not; otherwise you wouldn't be able to make out a > conversation in a crowded room - even when it's much quieter than the > background noise level. > > If the Benchmark really was immune to jitter, then you wouldn't be able > to hear the effect of different transports (or interconnect methods) > with it ... and you can. (And when I say 'you', I obviously don't mean > you opaqueice ... although you've probably never tried.)
As far as I am concerned jitter doesn't manifest itself as "noise" in the conventional sense of that term, meaning something hiss, humm, burbling, clicks and pops, harshness, glare etc. The noise floor is thus irrelevant. It affects timing and that creates "uncertainties" (for lack of a better word) in the music. However, since non-intrinsic (ie not on the CD) jitter is treatable using buffering within the DAC and other techniques, the question really should be: "Is the "effort" that a DAC has to go to to ameliorate the effects of jitter the culprit in determining sound quality when using different transports/cables". In other words, with a perfect bitstream and zero-jitter at the input to theDAC would transports really sound different? Personally I don't think they would. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... ...SB3+TACT+Altmann+MF DACXV3/Linn tri-amped Aktiv 5.1 system and some very expensive cables ;o) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38637 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
