Jaco;217078 Wrote: > My believe is that all these different approaches of slaving the DAC to > the clock of the digital source, or by using PLL's or > re-clocking/re-sampling are fundamentally flawed. It is the DAC that > should be the clock master and not the source. That immediately solves > most of the jitter issues if the DAC has a low-jitter master clock. > > Fortunately some companies have realised this and started taking this > approach. For example, see the Pace-Car by Emperical audio > (http://www.empiricalaudio.com/frPace-Car.html). > > Another company taking this approach is LessLoss (see > http://www.lessloss.com/). By the way, the latter web site is a useful > resource of information regarding jitter with some nice animated > pictures of what it looks like.
I'm kind of more interested in what it actually sounds like. Valve amps have (typically) higher THD but sound "lovely". ...and yes of course the DAC should be the clock source. But, using a PLL is fine and there are many systems out there that sound fantastic using that method. There are no absolute truths - only things that work and things that work "better". Enjoy the music Phil -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... ...SB3+TACT+Altmann+MF DACXV3/Linn tri-amped Aktiv 5.1 system and some very expensive cables ;o) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37044 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
