bigbwb;385459 Wrote: > Interesting thoughts. I would have thought some of the replies would > have been the opposite. Truly I do hope to notice a difference > (hopefully improvement) when the transporter arrives. I just was more > intimidated by all the folks who feel strongly that DAC's are all the > same. > > Any more thoughts from either side of the fence:) >
Depending on how much of a believer in Jitter you are, the DAC internal to the Transporter will have another advantage to an external DAC: you won't need all the transcievers. Taking a digital electrical output and converting it to optical, sending it down a wire, and then converting the light back into electricity is going to insert some level of jitter into things. LED's don't switch instantly: they switch fast, but not instant. You have the same problem with a coax connection, it isn't just about light, but about the need to use additional circuitry at both ends of the wire or fiber. Removing those components will certainly affect the DACs ability to avoid jitter. (And, yes, I know many high end dacs have jitter-reduction circuits..) Whether you hear it or not, well, that's another question. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58311 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
