opaqueice;583941 Wrote: > How exactly is changing digital sources going to affect the noise floor? > The digital source isn't in the analog chain. Any noise in the digital > signal itself can only manifest as jitter, not as analog noise. > > The only way I can see a different digital source could change the > noise floor is if the noise is being transmitted by the digital cable, > or possibly through power cords etc. If so electrically isolating the > digital source from the analog components should fix the problem. If > you use an optical connection like Toslink there's no electrical > connection at all. No need to buy an expensive new source.
Again, you misunderstood me. By 'noise' I didn't mean audible noise, I meant noise as in corrupting the pristine source signal information. Like if you have a stream of bits (zeros and ones), arranged in a certain order, and then by the process of transmitting them from one device to another device, you mess the order up. That's the noise I'm talking about. A poorly engineered and poorly built component can tamper with the original signal by the virtue of having unhealthy dose of tolerance to a large margin of error. The end result is that the output does not match the input, and what you get is music reproduction that is lying through its teeth. You don't want that to happen. You want to get to the point where the output (i.e. the wave forms emanating from the speakers/headphones) are as closely faithful to the waveforms as they were generated at the point when the physical sound hit the membranes of the recording microphones. This is the reason why lousy audio components sound so shitty -- they introduce a lot of noise by thwarting and deforming the original signal. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82520 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
