Patrick Dixon Wrote: > I think you are being slightly simplistic. > > > Thus if you have an imperfect SPDIF transmitter and an imperfect SPDIF > receiver (which in practise they all are - especially given the poor > specification of the interface), you are always likely to find that > different combinations of transport, cable and DAC will perform > differently. > QUOTE] > > Heh - I've been accused of worse! > > Anyway, I fully appreciate what you are saying. However the fact > remains that the transport's jitter is measurable without any cable/dac > connected. Once we've established the low jitter of the SB we can turn > our attention to not compromising that low jitter through inadequate > cables and poorly performing DACS (including their SPDIF receivers). > > The point is that whilst the deleterious impact of jitter only becomes > manifest during the D-A process, the jitter is a lurking presence (or > not) before it gets to the DAC. So, best we try and minimize it before > it gets there...once it's in the DAC it's going to affect the d-a > process in a way that is probably audible...and no amount of fancy > re-clocking, buffering etc will totally eliminate it. > > Can I prove that? - yes. If it were not true, all transports/cables > into (say) a Chord DAC64 or similar would sound they same - which they > don't. So the jitter must still be having an effect on them. > > On the other hand, the reason that even super-dacs are transport > sensistive may not be jitter. It could be something else, like RF, > grounding issues etc etc.
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