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| How does a Transport effect sound? Have you ever directly compared the Canare LV-77s and Belden 8281F coaxial cables for jitter?No, but if you send these, I will be glad to make measurements and post it.Here are the ones I had on-hand and compared:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.p... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? But 20 grand, are you Nuts?It is a question afterall.This is precisely why you get an Oppo for $1000 and add a Synchro-Mesh for $599. People that have them will tell you it’s a no-brainer.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? How abour MSB's Data CD? They seems to take care of both the "read until right" (CDROM drive and memory buffer) and ”jitter/timing" (proprietary I2S connection by using ethernet network connection) problems?MSB's "Pro I2S interface" is a good impl... | |
| Digital inputs ....is one really better than another? No, AES/EBU is eliminated from many designs because of the cost savings and panel or board savings, or maybe because it’s a more squirrely interface, or maybe the designer does not know how to implement it.It is squirrely because the XLR connector... | |
| Digital vs Vinyl: The winner is ?? What are this guys credentials? What systems has he listened to?The same recording both digital and analog is a fairly big difference IME, not a small one, particularly given the two systems at the same price-point.Ultimately, he got to the right... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? The jitter effect of all of these "tweaks" can be measured. Most of them make audible changes, but not that significant.The best CD disk tweak is to apply a rubbery coating to the top of the CD to prevent vibration while spinning. This is where ... | |
| High End DAC's compared According to the ’Absolute Sound’ October, 2017 review of theBryston BDA-3, "with both CD’s and DVD’s the HDMI outputs of my Sony Blu-ray players sounded decisively more refined and neutral than those players’ SPDIF outputs....mirroring what I’ve ... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? Is there any CD transport that can do all that in real time as required?Actually, the PSAudio Memory Player transport might do error correction because it is essentially a computer with CDROM drive.This will not make a big difference in sound qual... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? If I understand you correctly, you are saying that putting the Synchro-Mesh between any transport and DAC, will essentially turn the SQ of the transport (not the DAC) into something roughly equivalent to dCS, MBL, Esoteric, MBL. Is that accurate?T... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? Frankly if you dont spend $20K on a transport, you will not get the kind of low jitter that the Synchro-Mesh can provide. Even then, I'm not convinced. dCS Vivaldi, dCS Scarlatti, MBL do not publish jitter numbers and neither does PSAudio for th... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Do you think it just has to do with adding more layers and chances to mess up the signal? If not, why do you think it's like that? Why wouldn't they offer a bypass to go purer?Volume control is a check-box that every playback software must have ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I read that review of Steve's incredible ODSX and Plaskin calls his QX5 a bit forward. I don't get that in my system at all and I have an Ayre AX5/20 running it. If a recording is mastered forward, then it will give me that. If it's not, then it... | |
| DAC recommendation $300? you can barely buy a decent S/PDIF cable for that.I would reset your expectations at $600 and look for a good used DAC or a used HAP-z1exSteve N.Empirical Audio | |
| High End DAC's compared Insofar as I use the Oppo extensively for blu-ray DVD’s, and insofar as the Oppo will output un-decoded blu-ray audio only via HDMI, could you comment on the effect jitter reduction might have on the sound.I play Blu-ray movies using my Oppo and f... | |
| How does a Transport effect sound? I don’t know all the variables involved but I do know from experience that CD transports can and do sound different. Bits is bits?Same bits, different Jitter. Bits are the data, Jitter is in the timing.Steve N.Empirical Audio |