sckramer wrote: > To prove if noise is effecting the digital, you'd need to compare 2 > signals & look for bit errors, or differences (and depending on where > the bit error happens in the "16-bit" binary word... can translate to > big audio blip, or nothing at all) > > ..then on top of that jitter can mess up when the dac should read each > of these 16-bit words... lots to go wrong > > Think you'd need pretty expensive gear.
Not really. Just measure noise and jitter (using the 2-tone intermodulation test). Again, doable with any decent sound card and some software. Just look at the measurements 'Archimago' (http://archimago.blogspot.nl/) has published. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104518 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
