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A "bit" of information

Besides word clock jitter, which some DACs are capable of almost eliminating (Benchmark DAC-1), what other things can make one transport sound different from another? Aren't they just machines that spit out a stream of ones and zeros? Is it all just cosmetics for more money?

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koestner

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aroc
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Sure, if it was perfect. But it isn't. We have CDDA and SPDIF to contend with. And our methods of dealing with these appear to be flawed. If it was WAV files read over something like USB or firewire, we wouldn't have a lot of these problems. But we do. And it sucks.

Aaron
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