stop-spinning wrote: > The above would answer my question, why not try ripping your well > mastered CDs as files then try streaming through the Transporter to see > if there is any difference? You would have thought that the mechanics of > using a CD would be compromised by the laser, rotating disc, real-time > error correction etc - but in your case - apparently not.
I do have several hundred CDs ripped using dBpoweramp into flac or WAV codec. If I stream a WAV file to the Transporter and send it out to the Cary's DAC section (S/PDIF), then the Transporter is providing the clocking. The input receiver in the Cary has a buffer that some way or another addresses the incoming jitter, but this is different from what happens to the PCM as read directly from the CD (in the Cary's disc spinner). In this case, the data goes to a RAM buffer (not an input receiver). The clocking is all Cary as there is no other component inolved. Bottom line here is that there isn't a deficiency with the WAV file/streaming necessarily, but rather with handling of the data once streamed. I haven't tested this in a while as I've been doing just fine spinning discs old school for the first time in years. At some point, I'll get the hard drive going again and perform a comparison. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jh901's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18175 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
