SatoriGFX;331734 Wrote: > I am using a CIAudio VDA-2 NOS DAC. No jitter reduction scheme.
Hmm. You might want to try out a more "hi-tech" dac and see if it helps. > The Benchmarks jitter reduction claims are apparently somewhat > overstated. The Lavry is apparently better at it. Really? Why do you say so? My impression was the opposite, but then the only hard data I've seen is supplied by the manufacturers, a few not very reliable reviewers, and some (possibly disgruntled) forum posters. Still, one was pretty convincing - he took apart a Lavry, disconnected the part of the circuit that was supposed to do the fancy reclocking, and the thing worked just as before (i.e. that part was apparently never functioning). > The other option is something like the Emprical Oace-Car. If your dac doesn't accept an I2S input you may still end up with a significant level of jitter at the DAC inputs just from the cable and connections, even if the pacecar is very good. I don't know it it would be audible, but to me it seems like much better practice to do jitter reduction as close to the dac as possible. And given that the basic pacecar model is more expensive than a Benchmark, I really don't get it... but to each his own. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50147 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
