Jeff Flowerday;684387 Wrote: > Common sense has the rest of us listening to music instead of following > along when it comes to a simple binary bit perfect data conversion. > Either the data is bit perfect when it fills the 20 second network > buffer on the touch or it isn't. How fast, how slow, or how > efficiently it's filled doesn't matter. > > If you feel their is noise being injected over the ethernet from the > server, isolate your server from the touch with a quality wireless > bridge with a quality power supply. > > But then if you still feel somehow noise is getting injected, listen to > your music 20 seconds at a time, unplug the cable for each listening > session, hit pause plug the cable in, let the buffer fill and > repeat... > > .02 > > (Sorry I couldn't resist any longer)
I don't like the argument of bit perfect input to justify that the quality of a source has no incidence on DAC analog output signal. How can you pretend that a DAC circuitry is immune to any noise coming from its inputs? When you read on DAC reviews that the typical output resolution of a Sigma-Delta DAC is around 12-14 bits at most for 16 bits input resolution and 19-20 bits for 24 bits resolution, I am wondering where the residual error/noise signal comes from even if the input is bit perfect. That means for me, that a DAC output is not totally immune to (input) noise of any kind (not only jitter but also EMC/RFI, distortion of input signal,...). -- evdplancke ------------------------------------------------------------------------ evdplancke's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
