Julf wrote: > Unfortunately I have already come across audiophiles arguing that the > demonstration is pointless, as the intermediate digital steps don't > matter - the point of the Very Expensive Audiophool Ethernet Cable is to > isolate your music streamer from the nasty noise in computers (and I > guess routers)...
Quick question: you've lost me here ... I fully agree with you wrt the insanities I'm reading like "this NAS or this hardrive is giving a much deeper sound" - this is laughable, but intermediate steps do not matter, they really don't. Your signal can come from Mars, being encoded with a on a RF carrier with any sort of phase, frequency, amplitude, spreading modulation, then carried light (EM still) on optical fiber cables, then transmitted by people beating drums if you want, it does not matter at all - that's why we have invented error correction codes, to make all this lossless (oh well, okay, yes, the BER is never 0 but it can be as low as you want, as long as you do not try to violate Shannon's theorem). But, when you do the D/A conversion, this is where shit happens and this where also noise can be re-injected by some proximity interferers - but this is very close proximity, not the ethernet cable between my computer source and the next switch. Maybe I missed your point LMS 7.7.2 - 5 radio, 3 Boom, 4 Duet, 1 Touch, 1 SB2. Sonos 2xPLAY:1, PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBMC, Foobar2000, XBoxOne (sort of) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103146 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
