seanadams;255739 Wrote: 
> Certain kinds of modifications that involve reducing noise are not
> physically possible without a board respin. Also, no amount of skill
> could convert Transporter's digital audio path to 32-bit, unless you
> redesigned nearly the entire product from scratch. I.e., it is utterly
> impossible to do it by soldering on some components, regardless of
> skill level. I could not do it by swapping components, and I have full
> source code to the entire system and know every proprietary detail of
> the design. Besides the fact, what benefit would it have?
> 
> Likewise, claims of being able to reduce jitter to 3ps are complete
> cockamamie. That is about the amount of jitter introduced by the clock
> signal traveling across the PCB from the CPLD to the DAC, never mind
> propagating through the logic itself. Even a theoretically perfect
> oscillator having 0 jitter (which does not exist) could not reduce the
> level at the DAC below about 7 ps. And that is completely ignoring the
> fact that you could never install such an oscillator properly without,
> again, a board respin. 
> 
> Sorry but you are crazy to accept these claims at face value. If you
> understood the technology, you would find them just as ludicrous as the
> lacquered knob and other audiophile jokes.

I don't accept anyone's claims at face value, including yours.

Assuming the Transporter is perfect, and can't be improved upon is just
as crazy as any audiophile joke.


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