You gotta love the nerve of some of these shameless vendors and the way that they double down on some of their nonsense.
For example, the boogieman known as jitter. Jitter, from what I've gathered by reviewing the issue is something that really does exist and it can be measured. So far so good. What is not so clear is whether or not jitter can be heard. Oh sure in some of the worst cases of poorly designed and made USB ports the amount of measured jitter is very clear to see on a graph but it is still not clear that this jitter is audible. But never mind that since jitter is clearly BAD. In the case of the newer asynchronous USB DACs jitter, as shown by measurements, has been very clearly reduced and once again, it is not so clear is whether or not this remaining jitter can be heard. But never mind that since jitter is clearly BAD. Now several vendors have come up with products that claim to reduce or even eliminate whatever trace amounts remain and thus vastly improve the sound. As I said you gotta love the nerve. USB jitter (measurable but very likely not audible) > asynchronous USB jitter (reduced and even less likely to be audible) > Treated asynchronous USB jitter (reduced even further and now maybe, just maybe completely inaudible) So I guess all this means that there are many levels of inaudible or to put it another way, different kinds of zero - zero > -zero > super -zero Who knew? Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104340 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
