See other thread - I think we may be getting close to a (proper) jitter comparison between a high-end CDP and the SB. I am hoping that it transpires that the SB and CDP are similar in terms of jitter - in which case perhaps we can move on from discussing "bright sounding transports" etc... ...or maybe not...
It's my opinion that given the same bitstream and similar levels of jitter, the transport is "out of the equation" as far as eventual analogue sound quality is concerned. The focus then shifts to the DAC+cable (the latter for jitter NOT "freq resp"). In a properly design system the two "tunable" elements should be the DAC and the speakers...just like in the days of vinyl when it was the Cartridge and the speakers...everything else should just do its job in as transparent a way as possible. You'd choose the DAC/Speakers according to the sound you preferred...more/less detail, wider/narrower soundstage etc. Oh and of course you'd use room correction to firstly flatten and then tilt the freq resp as you saw fit. -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25138 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
