Phil Leigh;584243 Wrote: > It is trivial to prove that with a squeezebox there is no corruption of > the bits - the process is "bit-perfect". The digital TV analogy is not > relevant. > > What does matter are two things: > 1) accuracy of clock-recovery from the s/pdif stream which can cause > jitter (the impact of this very much depends on the design of the > entire DAC) > 2) real electrical noise (RFI etc) that can travel between transport > and DAC via the digital cabling or transport and amp via the mains > wiring and disturb the working of the DAC/amp and appear at the > speakers as noise/loss of detail / soundstage etc... > > There are of course other sources of interference, it's not just the > transport. And sometimes this interference can be airborne.
Completely agree. In this particular case, while everything else remains the same, I am still experiencing substantial differences in the sound quality when switching from the Duet receiver transport to the Touch transport and then back to the Duet (it's one of those things that you can quite easily hear even if you're in the other room). Does that mean that, in the end, we're talking jitter? -- 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
