m1abrams Wrote: > > Bits are Bits, either they make it or they dont. You would have to > have some serious amount of noise coming from that expensive equipment > of yours to cause the bits to be scambled, yet your equipment can still > sync on it AMAZING. .
Bits are bits, but in the end, the digital to analog conversion process is still an electrical/analog process. Variations in the squarewave voltage that represents a bit, while accurately representing a 1 or 0 within the tolerance of a computer's design, can introduce variances in the analog waveform. Resulting effects include jitter (timing errors) and amplitude errors. Is it audible? Depends on the system, the amount of jitter, etc. I've done double-blind tests on things like transports...both of which delivered identical bits, but had measureable differences in jitter, and resulted in audible (sometimes significant) differences in sound. And this was done using a DAC that had a very sophisticated buffering and re-clocking design... -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
