Well it has to be something thats happening to the digital signal, tho at what stage and what affects the signal is beyond me. I'm a natural sceptic and not prone to snake oil stuff , butI have directly AB compared various sources etc into my system , which is actually easy to do , considering my speakers have 2 digital inputs and my Z-sys also has seamless switching between digital inputs and have heard differences , whether its the DAC in my speakers doing this or not, I have no idea , but considering its the same dac used , the only conclusion I can gather is that its somethingto do with the digital signal itself. Nowto take this one step further , the addition of a meridian 518 in Bypassmode, where it merely de - jitters (so they say) the signal , makes a difference and anyone with one can confirm this - the signal is still the same info , yet it has changed somehow (Im not talking any upsampling of wordlength or adding any dither here) My z-sys that can convert a 16 bit sample to a 24 bit one also sounds audibly different when you do so , yet the info that comesout in terms of 1's and 0's still has to be the same , the extra bits must be empty......?? Initially , 44/16 sound was touted as perfect sound forever , and as we all know , that was not true. PPl plainly do hear differences and one cannot ascribe these to merely a placebo effect as many are wont to do.
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