Mnyb wrote: > The tact may as well have other issues to . Wonder if not most normal > DAC by today's standard have this buffering regardless of price . Price > vs performance is not connected in high end and rather flat in small > signal electronics and IMO it actually gets worse in the ultra high end > you get " exotic " designs to put it nicely that performs worse than > Chinese supermarket DVD players for 40$ > > The bufferings is not what's expensive in meridian it's merely a natural > consequence of thier design . > > You get 30s buffer in a Touch that's more than in my meridian system. > > One thing M has done for the quite ludicrous amount of $$$ I paid is > true upgradable products my ht processor is almost 10 years old ! :) > > I did hesitate for years before committing that cash I recon that the m > systems cost 5-10 times as much as it "should" if it had mass-market > appeal and been made in larger series , now it's basically hand built in > great Britain by people with decent pay . > > And actually it was the tech nerd in my that bought it ,it is done " the > rigth way " in absolute performance I could done better in hindsight . > > But back in 1998-2003 the meridian systems was almost the only DVD Audio > kit that transported 6ch 24/96 digitally to the processor ? > They have a proprietary drm system that allowed them do this . > Almost all other DVDA and SACD stuff had 6ch analog out ? That's pretty > much broken IMHO ? If want to do some DRC and speaker management , > youmhadmto fudge with some of it in the player and some mysterius 6ch > analog in on some amps ? Broken by design ? > > The speakers are not that old ( I bought the dealers demo kit otherwise > I could not afford it ) > > And I'm quite carefree at the moment no one but myself to tend too, > otherwise ther would be no m system for me .
Actually, the buffering I am talking about in Meridian is different than the 30s buffer in Touch. Meridian buffers SPDIF data and reclocks it out. Touch is using network connection and it always generates its own clock. Meridian looks like are pioneers in this digital audio business. They were architecturally/technologically way ahead. I guess this is what added up to their cost. They had to implement their own hardware. Yes, currently the SPDIF buffering is common in a few hundred dollar DACs sold on ebay from China. The TACT folks were also not bad. They have digital crossovers and their amps can be daisy chained. Since they were into room correction, I think, they do not see jitter as having that much of an impact in the sound. Anyways, I just want to squeeze the maximum out of my current setup (a quality SPDIF stream), before I move to one of those current DACs and analog amps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SoftwireEngineer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7000 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98249 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
