Folks, please dont say "nobody knows better". I am a CS/EE major and a major skeptic. First off, please understand what jitter is. Here is my summary - a CD needs to be played exactly (will come to the recording later) at 44.1kHz. But we cannot control this frequency exactly. It varies and that too at very high frequency. Like for example - it is 44.10001Khz now and 44.09999Khz in another millisecond/picosecond. DO you get the picture ? Is that distortion ? I do not know but it is not an exact reproduction of the waveform. Now can you hear this ? I have been using a Panasonic Digital Amplifier Receiver biamping my silverline sonatina speakers. So in my case, there is no dac, no class A/B amplification and associated distortions. My sound quality is directly related to the digital input quality (I think). And now if I change digital cables, sources (like digital modded SB3, Duet, modded oppo, Philips 963sa, Behringer SRC2496) I hear a difference. What do you think is at play ? (Same goes for the recording, you need to sample at exactly 1/44100 second intervals. So you cannot get rid of the jitter in the recording. One of the reasons some people insist on LP as the best source, because they are not satisfied with the best digital playback).
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