garym wrote: > if your new streamer will feed the same DAC, the odds of any difference > in audio is virtually zero. Different DACs can have different sound, > because of the analog side of the DAC design.Yes. To my way of enjoying home > audio, if a streaming system delivers a digital audio file intact and in timely fashion to the DAC input, with no more than normal levels of digital-side noise, then there is no -good- technical reason for any audible difference from "tweaking" the -digital- side of the system. I think the RPi/pCP system can achieve this objective with most good quality modern DACs.
I contributed recently to such a discussion online. There was insistence from some that digital-side noise made a difference to DAC audio output, via various technical theories. One contributor with an expensive DAC insisted that people should try an extra switch in their digital networks close to the DAC because for him it improved the audio output by reducing digital-side noise. His view was that this "tuned" his DAC. My view was that a DAC that responded this way was not well enough designed and constructed, especially so if expensive. Two views on how to enjoy home audio that it does not seem possible to reconcile. If someone enjoys having an audiophile streamer in his/her system then I think that's fine. It's a way to enjoy the hobby that I observe, do not share, but refuse to contradict. I have a few luxury products of my own, which I enjoy without any need to explain technically. However, not in the area of digital audio sources. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jophill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71321 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117271 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
