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| oppo 205 vs sepearate DAC or CD player.. should I bother? Lowering jitter is always a good thing for digital. This is the main thing that impacts SQ. The only way to improve this is to mod the transport or add a Synchro-Mesh reclocker to the Oppo and a good DAC. The separate transport/DAC will allow you ... | |
| CD players = dead? I have been reading a lot of reviewers lately re-discovering CD playback after getting used to streaming DACs and they all say that they’re surprised at how much more solid the CD’s sound (depending on the quality of CD of course) so no, not dead.... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD All of the energy of a signal doesn't necessarily follow only its intended/ideal pathway. Especially when the signal contains spectral components at very high frequencies, as in the case of Ethernet. Very possible that power modulation effects or... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Steve, do you have an explanation why with Ethernet and data sent in packets and check sum for errors, why jitter exists at all? Although USB is far worse, why Ethernet requires same careful implementation?Like USB, it is unexpected. I can only sp... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I can speak for Empirical, as most who have his products do. I wish his interchange was capable of RAAT protocol that ROON usesMe too. Maybe some day. In the meantime, Linn Kinsky sounds better IMO.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Some of the isolation devices/set ups work GREAT and help tremendously. Only a few makers of gear have implemented any of these in their devices as most don’t even offer ethernet connection for the source. Ayre has an optical isolation device righ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I think the fixation on DACs and their sound is a mistake. Get a good high quality tube preamp with the right tubes and create the tailored sound you want. Simply Connect a high performance SS DAC - any number of Stereophile class A+ will do and m... | |
| Need to Replace Transport A memory buffer in the DAC can help with jitter depending on the design. One that is properly implemented is in the new Benchmark DAC. The downside is that you must live with the sound of the Master Clock in the DAC, which may not be to your taste... | |
| Looking for a Giant Killer Digital cable Then one is left with figuring out if the reclocking on board the given device ...is substandard or not. And whether that given reclocking is messing up cable qualities analysis, or not. Or by what degree, is the usual reality.This is why one has ... | |
| Looking for a Giant Killer Digital cable The glass optical cable has the standard ends of a inexpensive toslink, but are highly polished on the Wireworld. Standard cheap toslink ($15 to $30 variety) usually comes with one thick plastic line to transmit the signal. OTOH, a high quality gl... | |
| Need to Replace Transport I've modded both ML and CEC. Get the reclocker. The ONLY thing that matters with digital transport is the jitter.Steve N. | |
| Need to Replace Transport Get a good used or demo transport like an Oppo and add a Sychro-Mesh reclocker and BNC cable to it. You can get 8psec of jitter this way, or you can spend $10K+ and probably not get close to this. Jitter from a typical transport:https://www.audi... | |
| Network Players and External DACs Another thing I've noticed is that Hi-Res albums downloadedfrom HD Tracks sound no different to my ears than the FLACrip of the same Red Book CD when played on the Cambridge.Whether you hear this difference will be function of the resolution and n... | |
| Network Players and External DACs Depends on the jitter from the digital output of the CXN network player. The good news is that it will probably outperform even your transport if you add a Synchro-Mesh reclocker to it. Here is the jitter from a Sonos network player before and a... | |
| Simaudio 260D - As transport The latest version of the Synchro-Mesh directly measures 8psec of jitter, and that is measured at the end of my 4-foot Standard BNC cable across a 75 ohm termination:https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=157348.0 What is the jitter measureme... |