Lyonesse Wrote: > > 4. modern interconnects are like the tone controls of yesteryear imo, > the VDH carbon fibre interconnects will hopefully allow me to keep all > this wonderful resolution that the SB3 delivers without the ear frying > sibilence. >
There's absolutely no technical support for this conclusion. Digital information just doesn't work that way. Let me try an analogy: Consider sheet music. This is analogous to the original digital information. It's information that can communicate music, but which has a physical form (paper and ink) which is unrelated to the reality of sound. Suppose you make a photocopy of the sheet music (equivalent to sending the digital data across your interconnects). A good photocopy machine will make a nice, crisp copy, while a poor copier will make a blurry copy. You then hand the copy to a pianist to play the music. The pianist is equivalent to your Bel Canto DAC. His eyes and fingers will translate the sheet music into sound. If the sheet music is clean and crisp (as with the good interconnects) he will have no trouble accurately reading the music and the piece will sound as it was intended. In the case of the blurry copy, however, the pianist may occasionally have some trouble reading the music. He might have to stop playing briefly, or randomly play a wrong note, or he might play a note a bit too soon or too late or too loudly or too softly. The errors will be random and entirely unpredictable. The analogy isn't perfect, but it should give you an idea of what's going on. The result of the blurry copy will not be a tone adjustment. It will simply be bad music. In the case of digital, the effects will be *far* more subtle than in my analogy, or you're more likely not to get any sound at all. And, just to be clear, for an interconnect to deliver the equivalent of the "blurry" copy it would have to be a very, very poor interconnect indeed. I've heard of tests that have even adapted clothes-hangers to act as digital interconnects and not a single bit was dropped over many hours of use. -- azinck3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24613 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
