[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Wired vs. Wireless audio differences
seanadams Wrote: I am not going to answer any more questions in this thread until someone is willing to try a blind test. It only takes a few minutes. There is no logical explanation as to why wired vs wireless should sound different. Couldn't agree more. -- Aylwin ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Wired vs. Wireless audio differences
seanadams Wrote: I am not going to answer any more questions in this thread until someone is willing to try a blind test. It only takes a few minutes. There is no logical explanation as to why wired vs wireless should sound different. I could explain all the science behind this, but it's completely irrelevant - just let your EARS tell you. If you claim night/day differences then you should have no problem passing the Pepsi challenge. Please give it a try. Just to make sure there is no confusion, I don't believe the night/day comparision was used to describe the difference between a wired and wireless connection. It was used in my post to compare the difference between my cd player and a wireless sb2. In my case, I suspect either a setup problem with the sb2, the sb2 is doing something I'm not aware of, bad lossless files, or possibly my cd player is doing something I am not aware of. Support has been quick to respond and explain that the sb2 is not doing something I am not aware of that would affect the audio, so I'm ruling that out. I have rechecked my sb2 settings and I'm pretty sure I can eliminate that variable now too. So, I'm now looking into how I created my flac/wma lossless files and my cd player specs. FWIW, in my scenario, I was able to setup a wired/wireless test last night. I did a quick 5 minute test and I couldn't tell a difference between the two. However, I have a friend swinging by this weekend and I will have him take a blind test too to see if he can hear a difference... and I plan to give the test more time than 5 minutes to sample different material. -- MrKegFlex ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Wired vs. Wireless audio differences
-From my understanding jitter is a time based issue that occurs when the timing on the transmission side is unstable and the DAC uses this unstable timing as a basis for conversion.- That is true. -I would presume the Squeezebox or XBMC in my case would read the FLAC file into a buffer and then send it via the digital output to the receiver where the DA conversion would take place. If this were the case as long as the buffer was never empty the wireless-ness of the transmission should not contribute to jitter in my opinion.- What you may have overlooked here is there will be jitter on the transmission interface to the DAC and it is this jitter (and this jitter only) that can cause audible degradation, depending on the DAC's jitter transfer function (i.e. how much jitter on the interface gets to the DAC clock). In the case of a Benchmark DAC1, it's none, for other DAC's it varies a lot, depending upon how well engineered they are in terms of the SPDIF interface, the receiver circuitry, the clock regeneration etc. Andy. -- Andrew L. Weekes ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Stick with SB1 or get SB2?
17th sounds good to me. About midday? I'll make some food. -- lilolee Cheers Lee ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Re: Wired vs. Wireless audio differences
These links make good reading: - http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/appnotes-d/jittercu.html lots more here: - http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/showthread.php?s=threadid=10480 Andy. -- Andrew L. Weekes ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
