Archimago wrote: > At this point, I'm quite convinced through my own measuring experiments > and hearing tests (not to mention the data set around my MP3 test among > audiophiles) that factors like jitter (or even lossy compression!) play > a very minimal part in a good sounding system. Sure, like anything, if > it's found in extreme amounts, that's bad, but I have yet to find a > relatively well engineered piece of equipment that's "extreme" in this > regard... Heck, even a $200 Chinese eBay DAC does quite well. Pull up > a song in a wave editor and have a look at the frequency spectrum while > playing and it becomes obvious that the kinds of jitter we're seeing and > the levels they're showing up is completely irrelevant and this > correlates well with the science of it. That of course doesn't mean I'm > not interested in the newest tech, just that I have no compulsion to > just buy something that is the "latest and greatest" when I have some > context as to what level of performance I've already purchased.
See, you *have* reached a nirvana :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 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
