In my own personal experience with DACs that have re-clocking and jitter reduction designs, unless they are using a word-clock to control the transport, I've found that they are still sensitive to jitter. Even my reference DAC, the Dodson DA-218, which has state of the art buffering/re-clocking in its design, is affected by jitter from the transport; my understanding of this is that you're still using a Phase Lock Loop (PLL) to synchronize the DAC's clock with the transport's clock, and there is jitter inherently introduced into this kind of architecture if the clocks are not identical...and that re-clocking using yet another clock isn't going to remove all the jitter.
(disclaimer: I am far from being an expert on this topic, and what I've written is my understanding from explanations given to me from people whom I consider to be experts. It's entirely possible that my explanation isn't 100% accurate...!) That said, the big question is whether you'd be able to hear the difference, and if so, whether its worth the price difference to you. The only way to really tell is to try... And fwiw, when I receive my Transporter, I intend to use it mostly to drive my Dodson DAC... -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25983 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
