ralphpnj wrote: > Thank you and I didn't mean to offend I just wanted to level the playing > field, so to speak. > > Regarding your and the audiophile community's fixation with jitter > here's what I just don't understand - you and everyone can't hear it or > at least can't jitter at the levels being discussed. Sure extreme > amounts of jitter are audible but that level of jitter has been > eliminated for the digital audio playback chain many years ago. Jitter > caused by vibrations is not audible nor is jitter caused by a 1.5 meter > cable versus 1.75 meter cable. But hey it's your money so spend it as > you please.
Ralph - the term "audible" is subjective. I agree, I am sort of obsessed with jitter. But I have not spent much on this issue and probably lesser than you. I buy things used and sell them if I dont hear a difference I sell them without much loss. Music is about things happening within a time span. Any time-domain anomalies will be noted by people with keen hearing. I have friends who can identify chords even in crappy systems or computer pitch corrections in songs. Right now, my focus is to create a minimalist system that can recreate live music. For eg, when I got out of the parking lot to get to the steam trains here in Jamestown, CA, I could immediately identify the live band playing in the station although amplified. This is surely not the case with our audio systems, we can tell it is a stereo, One of the reasons could be the volume, but I feel it is mostly the transient response or dynamic range performance. This is the reason I am avoiding DACs/preamps in my system. They all seem to add some coloration. My direct digital system (either the TACT or even the Panasonic) are very transparent. If I can hear the switching of the power supply of my SBT to the stock one, it could only be jitter (as I feed digital output to my amp). My point again is - there are reasons people buy very high-priced systems (that I will never (I think) buy a dCS is because I feel I know the technology involved and probably not worth the money). I think I can "tune" my system without spending that much. But I will try to understand what design issues they are addressing in these systems and replicate them in my system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SoftwireEngineer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7000 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
