evdplancke;686692 Wrote: > "I know one thing, that I know nothing" (Ancient Greek: ἓν > οἶδα ὅτι > οὐδὲν οἶδα hèn oîda > hóti oudèn oîda) said Socrates about Genuine Wisdom (see also > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing) > > Don't want to judge who is wiser in this thread though I have my own > opinion. > > Bit perfect signal reconstruction before buffering is no doubt as far > as TCP/IP takes care of it. But who can claim he has the knowledge to > answer the following questions? > > 1) Why does some Ethernet cables have different throughput? Is this not > related to the noise they are carrying on? What happens to this noise > when it reaches the Touch? Can't he interfere in any way with the > perfectly reconstucted signal in the signal path between the input > buffer and the digital output? > > 2) Doesn't packet loss and retransmission, packet jitter, packet size, > round trip delay,... cause CPU load that can in turn potentially cause > interferences with the perfectly reconstucted signal in the same signal > path? > > The one who can give perfect and scientific answers to these questions > can wisely claim that bit perfect data means perfect signal output. The > others, if they think they are wise, should rather keep quiet... or > experiment to see if they can find some factual evidence to sustain > their claims. > > Now I guess you can judge by yourself who I think is wiser ;)
You don't need scientific answers, just unplug the damn cable. By doing so you eliminate the possibility of 1) noise being injected, and 2) load on the CPU and ethernet hardware dealing with messed up TCP/IP transimssions, the data buffer is already full and past the ethernet and protocal stage all the touch has to do is pass it on to it's dac or out to an external dac. SBGK has clearly indicated that he hears no difference when unplugging the cable, yet the change of one priority on the server makes a big difference. So both point 1 and 2 are ruled out by SBGK's golden ears. Personally unplugging the cable has no change in audio quality for myself either. -- Jeff Flowerday ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff Flowerday's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93257
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