jhm731;189831 Wrote: > 325xi- > > The Mac Mini isn't a laptop. > > I haven't seen any published jitter specs for any Mac products other > Stereophile's test of the $129. Airport Express, which measured 258ps > using a Musical Fidelity X-DACV3 DAC verses their 321ps measurement for > the SB3. > > I'll bet the digital outputs on the Mac Mini, Powerbook or iMac are as > least as good as the AE. >
It uses cramped laptop parts. As a free human being you can bet for whatever you want, even that white is black - your right. Stereophile jitter numbers, measured on analog outs don't mean much, and Dan Lavry was among the first to state it. What I say is that... I prefer to consider any mass market sound card, including the one in your Mini, is bad, unless proven otherwise. Can you prove? P Floding;189936 Wrote: > Yet again a total and utter misunderstanding of how things actually > work. Don't worry though, prominent hifi reviewers are often equally > confused. > > The wired or wireless TCP/IP (network) connection is TOTALLY > transparent to the SB3. The SB3 _asks_ for data and buffers lots of it > and plays it back AT ITS OWN CLOCK'S SPEED. > > I believe it is exactly this lack of understanding of the massive > benefits of _pulling_ the data from a TCP/IP network that keep making > reviwers have silly preconceptions. It worth noticing that here lays the major difference between tcp/ip audio data transfer SB implements, and isochronous USB used by USB DACs. TCP/IP is asynchronous, so the very word jitter isn't applicable to a path between a computer and SB, appears only in between SB and SPDIF receiver, and after that. Isochronous USB act in a manner very similar to SPDIF, so you could have jitter started on one stage earlier - already between PC and the DAC. -- 325xi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 325xi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33836 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
