On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:47 PM, opaqueice <opaqueice.4numhz1295502...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > garym;603795 Wrote: >> You sorta need to read the forum for a while, or at least look at some >> of the other posts of the posters who are giving you advice (I'm >> speaking generally, not just this thread). This will help with a >> baseline on their opinions. I don't mean anything good, bad, or >> otherwise here, but this forum has folks that find major differences >> with minor things, find no differences with major things, and >> everything in between. Some members have the ability to perform fairly >> sophisticated tests and o, some are believers in double-blind testing, >> some think this is worthless, etc. > > I, for example, would be willing to be bet a large sum of money that > not one of the posters in this thread could hear the difference blind > between a touch, duet, or SB3 classic going into my DAC (a Benchmark > DAC1). > > You'll be just as hi-fi with a duet as with a touch or a transporter if > you run into a decent DAC. It's a question of what you like and what > you feel comfortable with, not sound quality. >
Agreed. Interface jitter is irrelevant unless it is bad enough to actually fail to communicate with a downstream device. I seriously doubt the Duet is broken enough to have audible issues along those lines, though I don't own one. On the other hand, converter jitter (intrinsic, caused by heat, poor internal clock mechanism, etc, etc) is always bad, and usually audible. I think it is vastly more likely that people are actually hearing DAC issues. The best-sounding DACs I own are the Benchmark DAC1 and the Tact T-2. The Benchmark in particular does not give a damn how bad the incoming interface jitter is. I will have to try it blind, but a level-matched comparison between the SB3 and the Transporter seems identical on my setup. I use the Transporter because of 24/96 content, not because it sounds better to me with 16/44. Unfortunately the transporter can't act as the preamp for its digital inputs, or else I could use its DAC to compare against as well. _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
