Phil Leigh Wrote: > > > The only people who don't accept that an accurate rip+HD will > outperform a high-end CDP as a digital transport are: > > 1) people who (currently) own high-end CDP's > 2) hi-fi reviewers > 3) buffoons who know nothing about how computers work. (Pat, this isn't > a reference to you!) > > Phil (kevlar jacket enabled)
While I too salute your bravery, in this particular forum I'm not sure you'll really need the flac jacket... on the issue of digital transports, an experiment anyone with an external DAC can do easily is compare Toslink to coax. Many DACS have an input selector switch, so try comparing (say) a cheap plastic Toslink cable to high quality coax. I've tried that, and I didn't hear any difference in my system. This is relevant because Toslink should (at least according to some DSP engineers) induce lots of jitter relative to coax - probably much more of a difference than between two good-quality digital transports such as SB and CD player. Apparently in my case it wasn't enough to make an audible difference. And of course (here I go again!) please do this blind if you think you can hear a subtle difference... -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24670 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
