I'm also thinking about the OP's ripping process ? could be something wrong there to? I rip mostly using EAC with all bells and whistles, I also have CDex and dBpoweramp. I'm using SB3 as digital transport, and if I compare it with my Meridian G98DH transport, i have a hard time telling them apart.
If the sb3 is correctly set upp with no transcoding or digital volume controll, That leaves the ripping process. And modern dac's or processors have very good dejittering/reclocking. That should minimize source differences even more. This was not the case in the "old days" of digital the 90's :-) you could have all kinds off trouble trying to match certain drives to a dac. I once had a dac/drive combination that did'nt lock correctly unless the units where warm, some kind off clock drift so i left it on all the time. I also owned a CD drive that had been modified by the previus owner, the punter had stuck a large blob off bluetack around the clock crystal, thinking that this should help with vibrations ? but some crystals are temperature sensitive so the bluetack blob prevented all cooling on that circuit part. -- Mnyb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41268 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
