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| Why use CD Transport instead of computer source Jstovall389 - WiFi will not suffer sound quality hits over USB. In fact USB is more difficult to get right. WiFi is always bit-perfect. Only jitter has to be dealt with. The only disadvantage of WiFi is some times it gets interference from wireles... | |
| Digital Playback Comparison Johnnyb53 - your understanding of USB is wrong. Except for asynchronous interfaces, most USB intefaces are synchronous, and depend on the rate of the datastream in real-time. The thing that makes some USB converters better than others is the chip ... | |
| Digital Playback Comparison Vcoheda - simple, the difference in the burned CD is that the pits are more accurately place, which results in more accurate timing, which reduces jitter over the orginal CD. Digital playback comprises the data, which is generally error-free and t... | |
| Sonos Questions Rdb001 - the Sonos is capable of even better sound than the TP with a reclocker and a good DAC. In stock form, it cannot compete though. I dont feel that the D/A chip in the TP is very musical. There are much better outboard DAC's than this, altho... | |
| What does Jitter sound like? Shadorne - this paper is more meaningless than my jitter samples. The system and music tracks used for this test was a joke. No conclusions can be drawn from this study IMO.At least with my jitter sample (requested by many on Head-Fi), you can hea... | |
| Sonos Questions Frederick21 - I agree. Even Squeezebox just launched their new Duet and it does not support 24/96. | |
| Sonos Questions Frederick21 - all manufacturers will claim this. If you compare a stock Squeezebox to a stock Sonos for instance, you will be shocked at the difference in jitter. The SB is much lower, and it still has audible jitter. The Sonos has the worst jitte... | |
| What does Jitter sound like? Shadorne - the jitter download is coming. It's in the works.Steve N. | |
| Sonos Questions What I'm saying is that its silly to spend a lot of money upgrading the power supply or cabling on a Sonos. First attack the big improvement, and that is jitter due to output circuits and clock.Of course you should use an outboard DAC.Steve N. | |
| What does Jitter sound like? "Isn't the buffer in a CD player designed to store data so that it can be processed/decoded to extract the relevant audio bit stream information so that only these "bits" can be sent to the output of the DAC?"There is minimal buffering in most CD ... | |
| What does Jitter sound like? Shadorne - how do you think the data coming off the disk is stored in a buffer in the CD player without a PLL?BTW, I am an EE. I was a design team lead on the Pentium II at Intel Corp. 30 years design experience designing everything from big disk ... | |
| What does Jitter sound like? Brownsfan - As I have said in other posts, it is the PRIMARY deficiency that makes Digital Audio fatigueing, and is the single most significant flaw in the S/PDIF and CD format.Steve N. | |
| What does Jitter sound like? "My point was that there is no jitter added or lost by copying CD-R's many times (provided everything remains in the digital domain). The same is true for digital processing - it adds no jitter. ONLY a jittery clock or jittery signal makes jitter.... | |
| What does Jitter sound like? Dgarretson - Wow and flutter exhibit the same results as jitter, frequency modulation, so the answer is yes, although some jitter occurs at rates and changes in ways that a turntable could not physically do.Steve N. | |
| What does Jitter sound like? Bigamp - Sooner or later the folks that dont understand the jitter thing will hear it or they will eventually upgrade their systems to the point where they hear it. Until then, it is like trying to explain how the earth looks from space.Jitter is ... |