Hi All, i'm back from a W.E. spent with my family, not flyng Kite but Hill Walking on the snow, hope is the same for you ... :-).
Wow, lot of people now in this Thread! I think you are moving far too deep in techical matter for me, but is Ok, I'll keep on reading, may be I could learn something. What sound strange to me is that we need to debate about the possibility that different transport sound different via the same DAC. They do, If not, why should we have so many company selling transports (and different models of them) on the market? It's an easy test, just plug different transports to your dac and listen... I did it (CD Players, DVD Player, SB Receiver and SB+) and for sure I could ear differences, if you don't, forget about the one I reported between FLAC and WAV. I don't know why TRPs sound different, but what I know for sure is that - at least in my system - they do. I also noticied that the more you take care to insulate them from power line noise and vibrations, the 'open' is the sound you have in output, cheaper equipement normaly change in greater way (SB+ less than receiver, for instance), and also cable (DIG ONE) plays his role. I did not try with headphones, as John said, but in my experience is better to unplug the Analog OUT of the TRP when you are listening throu the SPDIF. Some tech people says this is not just becouse the electrical charge, but also becouse the cables could operate as an 'antenna' for RFI/EMI, I'm only reporting this, I'll never sign it for sure! Could all of the above be refletced in Jitter? In previous posts someone reported the same I've noticied myself: When playng FLAC converted to PCM, SB reports XXX VBR converted to 1411.2 Kbps ABR instead of 1411 CBR (WAV PCM). Why "Average" and not "Constant" bitrate? Are they exactly the same so far as SB is involved? Thanks to all and a special one to Phill who wanted to try once more and he could still not ear any difference, whe are here with the original pool: The majority of us could not ear any difference. Some of Us (at least me, John and deadushka) could ear differences between WAV/PCM and FLAC/FLAC stream of the same music. I'm still the only one (and probably I'm wrong!) who could ear differences between WAV/PCM and FLAC/PCM stream of the same music. Regards. Marco -- marcoc1712 ____________________________________________________________ SB+, Klimo Merlino + Kent Gold, Monitor Audio Studio 20 Gold SE+, Klimo reference and DIS Interconnect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
