Daverz;657604 Wrote: > Maybe there are still exotic "boutique" DACs with poor jitter rejection > that are sensitive to cables.
Would not surprise me a bit :) In Audiophile lore such DAC would have very "high resolution" making it possible to hear differences between cables and digital sources in general ;) They do like designs that are sensitive to noise, powersuplies, rfi emi etc microphony and so on . Examples some very simple amp designs with very low feedback does not reject powersupply noise very well and are in general sensitive to the voltage level being exact etc . This would then be taken as an argument for how important power-supply design is ? Audiophilia is full of similar circle arguments . Much of the cargo cult designed stuff , facilitates self fulfilling prophecies on for example how important digital cables or [insert whatever] is *We must limit our arguments to competently designed equipment* , (not for example amps that oscillate to destruction with the wrong speaker-cable) I think this is verytragic, they are reliving the 50's 60's and 70's having audible artifacts no one would expect anymore. Impedance miss-match and interface problem in the analog domain ? The cult brand Holfi have for example managed to design a CD player in the 90's who distorts quite much if not the preamp input impedance is *not* about 800Ohm so it does not perform well in other setting than their own preamps? (who ofcourse use this odd input impedance ) I don't think this is unique at all. Cult brands are all to happy to oblique the actually make equipment that are up to audiophiles demented expectations ,) Another poster on this forum had a tube preamp that started to distort at input voltages above 0,2V duh ? -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90360 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
