The way I see it is you won't get jitter with a Flac or similar lossless file delivered to the on-board DAC over Ethernet and TCP/IP protocols. You may get jitter during the DAC stage but the very short distances signals have to travel would mean jitter is essentially zero.
However if you hooked up a DAC using SP/DIF to the SB you may in theory be introducing jitter issues (not that I've ever experienced jitter myself but I'm sure you could academically prove it's there). What the external DAC may do though is just generally be superior to the on-board DAC and thus sound superior anyway, regardless of any talk of jitter. Even so, perhaps it will help with the jitter introduced by connecting SP/DIF from the SB. In my opinion it's best to get your head out of academic audiophile talk on web sites and marketing, and actually audition things for yourself, preferably with a true blind test. If it truly sounds better, then buy it. -- deadkenny ------------------------------------------------------------------------ deadkenny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6722 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26030 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
