opaqueice Wrote: > I'm afraid you fall into Phil's category 1, hence helping prove his > point ;-).I can turn that around pretty easily. People who can't accept that > high end transports make a difference... don't own them. :popaqueice Wrote: > But seriously, and I ask this in a spirit of friendly skepticism, how > can digital errors (either jitter or missed bits) change something like > bass detail? The bits themselves have essentially nothing to do with > bass, until they get decoded through a very complex process in the DAC.No > idea, but it is a common observation. When I first got a high end CD player I didn't even have a decent amp yet... hooked it up to an all in one portable DAC/Amp that I had and there was a huge difference over my AV320 which was outputting WAV files. I don't bother trying to figure out why I hear what I hear. I trust my ears. :)opaqueice Wrote: > To make an analogy, since you're a network engineer isn't it kind of > like saying when you send a jpeg file over a wireless net versus wired > the reds in the image are more washed out and less saturated, but the > greens and blues are fine? > > EDIT - to make my analogy a bit better, suppose one of the files was > corrupted slightly, but the image was still viewable...Ummm... sorry, that > analogy seems to make sense on the surface, but these are two completely different things.
What people seem to forget is that regardless of the DATA you are starting with, the method by which your transport 'transports' the data to your DAC is the important part... as long as it does its job in first retrieving the data. [Which any decent player will] -- philodox box clever, watch your system come together crazy weather at the end of my tether ::る:: heavily modded akg k340 < xlr out < lavry *black* da10 > headphone out > john grado hf-1 slim devices squeezebox /\ ultimate power cell 200 eastsound cd-e5 signature edition ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philodox's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5061 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24670 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
