Julf wrote: > Most modern DAC designs have an ASRC or at least fifo buffer at their > input that isolates the rest of the DAC from timing variations in the > input, so jitter is less of an issue than it was 20 years ago. I assume > your "rurmor" is hum and noise, and if that was an issue, we would see > lots of reports of optical connections sounding much better than > electrical ones. Do we? And yes, the final stage of a DAC is analog, but > pretty well isolated (in any modern DAC design) from the input.
Most(?) but not All. My claims are for me in my system, that is the same as it was in 2009, just because in my opinion is still the best sounding source I've ever tried for 44.1/16 material. See my signature. Crazy audiophiles believe NOS ladder R2R DAC sounds better. Unless you think all dacs sound the same, in that case no way you could heard wav/flac differences, no ASRC here, sure. Noise (yes, rumor was a naive translation from italian) come from signal line but also from power supply, ground paths and even EMI, RFI and vibrations, as in any other analogue device, why should not in the output stage of our beloved dac? Sure some device are better than others, also in this aspect. I'm far out of my field, so I'll stop here. ____________________________________________________________ SB+, Klimo Merlino + Kent Gold, Monitor Audio Studio 20 Gold SE+, Klimo reference and DIS Interconnect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104227 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
