SoftwireEngineer wrote: > What an interesting thread !! with things like jitter we could talk till > the end of eternity :-) On a serious note, I think both ralph* and jh* > have valid points. I do not have a very high end source/transport but > mostly my focus in the last few years where I have been using "direct > digital" amplifiers has been to reduce jitter. When I started the hobby > (more than 15 years ago) I did not think that digital cables could > influence the sound (I am EE/CS major). After quite a bit of reading, I > think I get what jitter is all about. People like Steve Nugent at > Empirical Audio are making genuine products addressing this issue. > I am not sure one can tell the difference between a 2K player and a 10K > player, but then again I do not have the "high resolution" amps and > speakers as jh* asserts. I do believe the sound of a system is > influenced in the following order - 1) Recording 2) Room > acoustics/speaker setup 3) Speakers 4) preamp/amp 5) Source. Still > increasing the quality of digital sources seems to bring about a large > difference in sound that the Souce can also be in #1 position as > playback quality is equivalent to recording quality. If there is any > interest, I would further share how cost-effectively improve jitter > performance in a system. > (see my signature I am a cheapo-audiophile :-))
and yet even Steve Nugent claims to hear differences between computer transports and software players, I suppose he is a fool as well. The more I read about how to program a music player the more it becomes apparent that digital music is an illusion and what you are hearing is the computer and there are many compromises along the way. Perhaps the head in the sand approach of Ralph and Gary is the best, bits are bits and just pretend your listening to music instead of computer generated noise. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SBGK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52003 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
