Having done a number of comparisons between various cd transports (dpa, arcam) and the squeezebox into my dac using the same digital interconnect I'd be interested to know peoples thoughts on what is causing the clear differences heard if not jitter. Power supplies have been mentioned and to an extent I would agree that they make a difference. Another theory I've heard is that somehow interference / noise is being transferred from some transports to the dac and thus causing degradation to the sound. Anyone got any alternatives? The thing that doesn't really make sense is that flacs (pcm / wavs) have a worse digital output than mp3's. I'm wondering if this is an internal rf noise issue as something will have to be working harder to process more data than with mp3's - or perhaps not. The thing I like about the tent xo3 is that it doesn't just feed a high quality clock to the decoder but it also corrects the spdif output after decoding. There is another board by a company called trichord which does a similar thing but it's more expensive. The biggest problem that I've got at the moment is how to fit the extra gubbins inside the squeezebox. I guess I'd have to re-box it but finding something that's a suitable size is difficult. Cheers
Julian. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
