garym;497950 Wrote: > In reading this thread, it doesn't seem to me that Phil has said (or > proved) that the differences are AUDIBLE. Phil, your comments? > > p.s. I don't have these skills, but it would be nice if someone could > create a plugin that worked similar to the ABX component in foobar2000 > for doing random, volume adjusted, computer generated blind tests across > two files along with statistical analysis of results.
Gary - I definitely did not say that the playback and recording of the same file twice (with non-locked clocks) would give an audible difference. It does give a measurable difference which is predicted because of clock drift of a few parts per million. The same would be true of a record player or tape deck (even on state of the art machines, wow & flutter is orders of magnitude higher than the clock drifts we are talking about here). In fact I cannot think of any replay mechanism that is free of such effects! However, digital replay will get closer than any of the others and is improved by better clocks in the DAC and by locking the transport clock to the DAC. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB Touch Beta (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
