musicinmind, Ethernet doesn't "lose" anything. You can demonstrate this by connecting two computers to a network (even a wireless network!), and then transferring a file back and forth. Any file.. a photo, a program, a text file, whatever. Transfer it back and forth a million times if you want to, no matter how many times you do it you will still have the same information. The is the same technology that lets you read a web page from around the world, or get cash at an ATM while you're on vacation. It works across your home with the same perfect accuracy as it does across thousands of miles of communication cable.
Contrast a CD, which is read from a fragile optical medium in a single pass. Only minor errors in this process can be corrected on the fly. Anything more than a speck of dust can cause audible problems. There is really every reason to expect SB3 to sound _better_ than your CD transport. However, if you have preconceived notions that computer audio can't sound good, this is going to influence your sighted listening tests. -You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. - If you are interested in doing controlled listening tests we can tell you how to do it. We can also walk you through how to capture the s/pdif data so that you can compare what is coming from the two sources. We can also explain how jitter works, how PCs are able to read a CD more accurately than an audio CD player can, and everything else. None of it is magic; this is just better technology. - You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember -- all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.- Sean -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41268 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
