agillis wrote: > I just read a great article buy DIY audio blogger Stephen Sokolowski. > [snip] > http://2channelaudio.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/source-control-to-major-tom.html Much as we are happy to see Squeezebox-based systems come out on top in comparisons, reading this article started ringing alarm bells.
His comparisons were using the various players as transports, all driving the same DAC. The differences he heard will therefore be due to one of two things: 1. Expectation bias. 2. His DAC is broken wrt. jitter rejection and/or vulnerability to noise. Under normal circumstances my money would be firmly on #1, but in this case since he describes the DAC as a "highly customised Phillips TDA1541 (NOS) tube DAC", option #2 may very well be the case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98604 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
