Wombat Wrote: > @P Folding > Welcome to the club! I also have better results with the optical > connection. > I hadn´t much time in testing my Squeezy to hard. > Today i took me some time and tried a bit around. I took one of my > favorite recordings out and tried. It is the Dead Man Walking > Soundtrack i often take for comparisons. > Bruce Springsteens voice in the first track reveals it to me most > easily. I have a Marantz CD5000OSE that doesn´t show much differences > between optical or coax at all, maybe cause the standard clocking isn´t > to good to start with. > My DAC is resampling by nature and i can switch 4 inputs directly for > easy comparison. > The result is strange somehow! The two Marantz exits sound better than > the Squeezys coax exit here. But the optical exit of the Squeezy is > better than the Marantz. > I tested coax/coax and optical(SB)/coax(Marantz) against. > I know some of you have hard jittering measure facts of a kind but this > doesn´t impress me to much. I like more to listen. > I may dig deeper into this in the near future and build a simple, good > PSu to start with cause everybody hypes it. > Before you ask for more details. My setup is well proven in an > Avantgarde Trio enviroment (sadly not mine) > P.S. > Normaly i don´t do such subjective listening reports in public cause > everybody just can write without any proove up to esoteric levels :) > I hope nobody from Hydrogneaudio.org does read this ;)
Glad to hear you trust your ears! Jitter figures are nice to have, but if you don't know what kind of jitter it is, then it doesn't tell you all that much. In addition, unless you measure on your own system, with all components in place and hooked up, you don't know if those jitter figures are even relevant. One problem with relying on only measurments seems to be that a lot of what we can (or usually) measure doesn't seem to affect the enjoyment of a system all that much, wheras things that are not usually measured often seem to affect the sound a lot. For example, I can alter the sound quality of my system simply by plugging in, or unplugging components (that are not used, they just sit there). I haven't seen ANY measurements on actual systems with lots of things hooked up to them! Nor have I seen any theoretical discussions on the possible effects of hooking up half a dozen components to each other. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21775 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
