ralphpnj wrote: > Not to quibble when you're bashing "audiophile 'golden ears'" but isn't > the jitter in the above graph still well below the audible range? Which > kind of means that jitter is really only a selective bogeyman brought > out or ignored depending on what piece of gear is being sold. Oops did I > just write "sold"? Must have a Freudian slip since I meant "reviewed". > So when pushing over priced USB cables jitter becomes this big scary > monster and when pedaling badly designed audiophile DACs jitter becomes > a cute little harmless kitten. Now hold on because you know it's > coming.....THAT'S WHY I CALL THEM CLOWNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ralph, I think you agree you have to pay a bit more to get some quality equipment and sound. So how is this equipment different from the 'consumer' range ? There is some engineering differences, right ? What are they ? Does a Behringer sound as good as a Lavry DAC ? Is it power supply, is it the output stage, is it DAC chip, is it the jitter reducing receiver before the DAC chip ? I think audio quality is not a open-shut case. It is a complex system of various engineering approaches to achieving high-fidelity (meaning loyal to the original) sound. Lower priced equipment make 'approximations'..higher priced equipment take it to the theorertical limits. Probably, these high-end companies take the circuit design to the limits even though after some point the audible benefits are beyond human perception. But this 'perception' thing is relative, what is not good to you, maybe is good enough for some. What is good to you maybe is not good enough for others. You can always say it is the placebo effect, snobbishness etc. We cannot make DBT a law .. so the unscrupulous of the engineers survive on the fringes of 'over-speced' equipment or as Mynb says, even on 'invented' specs of their own. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SoftwireEngineer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7000 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97950 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
