cliveb;234825 Wrote: > I don't think that's correct. Firstly, you'd need to get the gain > staging absolutely right. Secondly, even if you do get the gain staging > spot-on, no DAC or ADC is perfect, so you ought to expect a change in > the least significant bits. > > But no matter.... > > If you left the gain staging unchanged between tests, then this will > indeed measure any difference between the cables. And it wouldn't > surprise me if there was some minor measurable difference in the > resulting bits. (For example, cables with very slightly different > resistances will deliver a marginally different voltage at the ADC > inputs - effectively changing the gain-staging). > > But would those differences be audible? I suspect not. Your experiment > is a way to measure a difference that might not be relevant. It's the > other side of the coin to the argument that there may be important > differences which we don't know how to measure.
Clive - I agree - that's what I meant (probably badly) to imply by "calibrated"... :o) -- 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=38902 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
