HumanMedia;698447 Wrote: > Not completely true. In the tt sbt settings try raising the tcp buffers > without a corresponding alsa priority increase - it will make the sound > like a 1950s radio, you can also add clicks, pops and scratches which do > not correct themselves over time. Choosing mismatched priorities can add > any number of artifacts and strange distortions in with the still > audible music. Changing the priorites can change, improve or worsen > the added noise. You can even make it so bad that the audio becomes a > low volume chugging well before the Dac loses lock. You can also make > smaller priority mismatches which don't seem to add anything you can > consciously put your finger on, but are uncomfortable and fatiguing. > > But you are right that within proper operating parameters that the > digital steam should be fine. IMO the biggest things these tweaks do > is put the internal switching power feeds into different states some of > which create less electrical noise. Like putting a car in first gear > creates more steady high-pitched acoustic noise, or putting it into 3rd > gear makes lower frequency noise which has larger frequency modulations.
Whatever this is doing, it is NOT altering the data content (bit values) of the Bitstream. Digital audio simply doesn't work like that. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/W7)+Teddy Pardo PSU - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters,VdH Toslink,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
