evdplancke;681970 Wrote: > Let me then be concrete and propose you a pragmatical budget approach > that works fine for me (ordered by importance): > > 1) Stock SBT (you already have) -> 300$/ > 2) S-Booster BOTW Linear PSU (few will pretend that a good PSU does not > improve sound) -> 150$/ or DIY if you like electronics and have time to > spend instead of money > 3) V-DAC II (budget DAC but with high value4money) -> 250$/ > 4) V-PSU (linear PSU for V-DAC) -> 150 $/ > 5) Software tweaks: TT3.0 default is good (even with screen on) with > little effort -> 0$/ (of course, you can also skip steps 2 to 4 but > you would stay where you are) > 6) Hardware tweaks: good cables (speaker/interconnect/data)and > networking -> a lot of time and from some 100$ up to $$$$$ but then you > are lost in the audiomania > > To come back to my first post, I am not a fanatic of the jitter > explanation and can not prove or demonstrate the incidence of jitter on > the sound but it is one of the few explanations why all above would have > an impact on the sound coming out of a DAC, since the input is supposed > to be bit perfect. I can report at least for myself that what is behind > my DAC has an incidence on the sound quality. > > To tell you an anecdote about this: when I bought my linear PSU for the > Touch, I got a drastic improvement of the sound from my analog output > (trust me) but it was worse out of the DAC connected to the digital > output. Eventually I found I had a low cost switched PSU polluting my > AC outlet and when I removed it, the sound of the DAC became ways > better. > > Another important factor is certainly the immunity to electromagnetic > interferences that are flowing all around the system and induce > additional noise in any way, so better PSU and cables immunity has also > an incidence (that might be minor or major depending on the > environment). One forgets sometimes that a DAC has also an analog stage > that is not more immune to external noise sources than any other device > within the system.
Sounds like a logical way to approach, if I can find the parts to demo. Lots of good ideas. I am curious as a bit of a hobbyist, with some time to play with, the reference to the DIY PSU. I have read that these make a difference by cleaning up the sound from a hardware perspective, but I didn't think it made much difference if one used a power conditioner like a Furman. (which I don't in my main listening setup.) Everything plugged direct to the wall with a basic surge protector. Which does make me ask what is the low cost switched PSU you are referring to? A wall outlet? Or a surge protector? -- Munroe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Munroe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52982 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92801
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