Themis;344556 Wrote: > Because there'IS jitter already inside any player. Connecting an SB/TP > to an external DAC doesn't necessarily add more jitter to the overall > signal than the one obtained by listening to the analog outputs of the > SB/TP.
Let's put it this way: the jitter at the internal DAC of the SB/TP must be lower than the jitter at the DAC of a device connected to the SB via S/PDIF (either coax or optical). Why? Because whatever jitter there is in the SB's clock gets sent down the line anyway, and the cable and connections can only make things worse. So all else being equal it's better to keep the signal inside the SB. Granted, you may believe other factors are more important - but then you've essentially admitted jitter is not a concern, and the whole thing starts to crumble. And no, I don't think it's really comparable to a CD player. AFAIK CDs are read in real time, more or less, so one has to deal with similar timing issues. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52817 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
