Skunk Wrote:
If the DVD player has exceptional jitter performance, the sound would
probably be indistinguishable from HDUSBDAC- unless you consider
things like external connections and power supplies...
In your case its probably because your DVD player sucks :)
:-)
It's definitely not
CardinalFang Wrote:
I was told that coax was better than optical because optical required a
conversion from electrical to optical and then back again, whereas the
coax didn't.
See this thread for more comments on coax/toslink and
optical/electrical conversions:
Read 'this article'
(http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue22/nugent.htm).
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vdorta
DIY computer (EAC/FLAC) -- wireless SB2 (Bolder digital analog mods,
Sonicap Platinum bypass caps, Bolder Deluxe Power Supply) -- Stello
M200 monos -- ACI Sapphire XLs on dedicated Sound Anchors and REL
If your reciever's DAC is not as good as the SB2/3's 24-bit Burr-Brown
DAC, then why not use the Analog Audio (RCA) connection via a decent
interconnect? It'll probably be better. I've got a NAD T-743 AV Amp
(~£400) and use the Van Den Hul The Name Interconnect Cable with very
pleasing results.
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
But how can this be? Bits are bits, right? /
$$$
EAC has a much more sophisticated number cruncher backing it up than a
cheap dvd player. Kind of the same way Foobar has more power available
to upsample than most
I have a SB2, the sound from it is better than my TEAC VRDS CDP
especially using external DAC. As transport, SB2 is really better than
CDP because of no vibrational reason (CDP is sensitive to vibration). I
can say, the sound from SB is much detail and the vocal is very focus.
To me, SB2 is
bludragon Wrote:
Are you sure the dvd player is not processing the audio in any way?
It's certainly nothing I overtly activated, or something that can be
deactivated.
As with most DVD players, the only sound options are analog and
bitstream, and it was on bitstream. The receiver plays back
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
I was using my DVD player to play CDs before. It's just a Toshiba
SD-1800. But it's connected to my receiver by coaxial digital, so it's
only acting as a transport.
I find both an SB2 and an SB3 over optical digital sound much better
when listening to the same CDs
Mark Lanctot Wrote:
Could it be that:
1. The DVD player introduced more errors than just the minor ones EAC
corrected?
2. The DVD player has a worse S/PDIF interface than the SB does?
3. The receiver's optical S/PDIF decoder is better than its coaxial
one?
4. The SB's jitter
