SoftwireEngineer;147131 Wrote: > Exactly, my point and probably that of others. > Now lets speculate what could be the reason - different players used as > transport sound different. Conclusion - jitter. Ah, but now you're talking about two-box setups, where the CD player is used only as a transport. Jitter can indeed be an issue here, but it's not due to the transport - it results from the generation of the SPDIF signal and/or transmission through the interconnect and/or in the external DAC's receiving circuit. And exactly the same set of jitter-generating mechanisms exists if the transport is a Squeezebox.
SoftwireEngineer;147131 Wrote: > BTW, where in the Prism paper does it say, jitter is not affected ? Jitter is discussed in many places throughout the paper, but if you want to just get the gist of their findings, read the Conclusions section on page 8. Here is a relevant passage: > > "The effects of disc-related or servo-related sampling jitter have NOT > been found in either two-box or one-box players. Sampling jitter has > been widely cited as a significant artifact in CD players by writers in > both the consumer and professional audio fields. It seems possible that > the sidebands produced by amplitude modulation may have been mistaken > for the sidebands characteristic of sampling jitter modulation" > SoftwireEngineer;147131 Wrote: > Re: your signature line. Recordings that were mixed in analog and > finally converted to CD or DSD sound the best to me. Also, sound > engineers who use a good quality clock for their ADCs mention that the > sound quality is much better. So reducing jitter either during > recording or during playback should be a priority for high-fidelity > sound reproduction. What I'm trying to say in the sig line is that the way many modern CDs are recorded and mastered destroys so much of the music in the first place, that striving for the best possible reproduction seems a little pointless. It's just a bit of a rant against the music industry. -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28621 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
