richardw;513447 Wrote: > true. 1's and 0's are funny things. digital cables are a method to move > them and can sound dramatically different moving identical bit perfect > information. shouldn't but do. when my laptop reached the max and i > began this process (looking for storage etc) it started to sound > different. i moved all my music to external storage and the sound > changed back. i am a skeptical audiophile...not looking for these > differences and not wanting them at all. this was not subtle either. i > realize this is going to strengthen the case for my insanity but it is > true! why this happened i have no idea but it did.
spdif doesn't move 0/1's, it moves a medium-frequency analogue signal which has an analogue representation of the clock and the 0/1's encoded within it. It is the transition from the digital domain (which to put it simply, "just works") into the analogue domain that introduces the problems. Issues (e.g. noise) in the spdif transmitter, cable and spdif receiver can introduce jitter which then persists into the DAC. This has nothing to do with computers moving TCP/IP packets. TCP/IP can't "jitter". There is no clock. -- 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=74591 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
