rgheck;501698 Wrote: > Why should there be no difference in theory? And why should they sound > the same? Jitter is a real and measurable phenomenon, and its effects > are well documented. It would be utterly unsurprising if the digital > outputs of the various models had different jitter characteristics. > > In any event, I've compared the Receiver to the Transporter, both > feeding an external DAC. (I can't remember if it was the Pass Labs D1 or > the Adcom GDA-600, at the time.) The difference was pretty obvious. And > frankly, I was pretty bummed out. I was hoping to get away cheap in my > second system. But I had to shell out for a second Transporter, instead.
Right. That's what I was talking about. If you listen to SB3, Duet and Transporter through one and the same DAC the sound differs greatly. And it's not just jitter related. Difference is too great to blame jitter for that. But in theory the digital out of all three players should be the same. So I think (maybe I'm wrong, but it will take an engineer who designed these players to prove it) some additional processing is carried out inside these players, it's not just pass through. Or the analogue part of the players is at work at some stage and this seems to me a more plausible explanation than jitter related problems. I've only tested SB and Duet digital out on the same setup. And difference is "night and day". This doesn't require any special knowledge and anyone who is not completely deaf can carry out this simple test. But unfortunately many people rely on somebody else's opinion, which seems to be a rule in the Internet these days. I myself wanted "to get away cheap" but I'm saving money for Transporter. -- deadushka ------------------------------------------------------------------------ deadushka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35306 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71321 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
