Sometimes 'digital-sounding' is used as a shorthand for 'bright, edgy, etched, fatiguing'. As has been pointed out, this is often describing jitter and rail noise - the former partly being a function of the latter.
'Analog-sounding' is sometimes used to convey a certain 'soft-knee' distortion and euphony, combined with an absence of the hard-edged artefacts described in an earlier post. When you upgrade the power supply of a digital source component, or transport, what you're looking for is a kind of 'analog-ness' in that you're looking for a reduction in noise artefacts and jitter: this normally sounds like a layer of hash being peeled away: acoustic cues about the room being more evident - above all, a 'quietness' that may initially be mistaken for a blunting of dynamics, or sounding 'boring', if you've acclimated to the sizzly flavour of overcooked treble and bloated bass. You're listening for something being 'cleaner' from top to bottom, and transients (especially LF ones) happening explicitly, without overhang. Subjectively, the net effect should be less fatiguing and more natural: a sense that there's less between you and the recording. -- item_audio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ item_audio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=51315 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81454 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
