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| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Eliminate most of the wired Ethernet issues by simply earth-grounding the DC common of your router. Tie the DC common to the ground pin of the IEC connector, either inside the LPS you are using, or by using an external wire to the third hole in t... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions Oppo UDP-205 > Belden 1694A (Canare RCAPs) coax > Schiit YggdrasilEmotiva ERC-3 > Belden 1800F AES/EBU > Schiit YggdrasilSamsung SMT-C5320 > Optical Mitsubishi Eska POF > Schiit YggdrasilGateway NV79 > Belkin e129760-c usb >... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions So I am using multiple sources. But did you drive only the Shiit DAC from 2 different S/PDIF sources or use 2 different S/PDIF cables?This will tell you whether it is jitter immune or not.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions I’m "relying" on the Yggdrasil to essentially "do its job" and what I believe I paid for, which is to correct the jitter, irrespective of how low or high it is to begin with.A simple test to determine whether its doing the job is to try 2 differen... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions I would suspect that if you had a lower jitter source to the Shiit DAC to start with, there would be an obvious difference between the OPPO and the Shiit DAC.Making a comparison using the OPPO as a CD transport is okay, but only if you are compari... | |
| DACs and bass response? I have all of Jonis albums myself, and many in 24/192 downloaded from HDtracks.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| DACs and bass response? Why don’t you use an APX555 from Audio Precision?I cant really tell much from an oscilloscope plot and triggering can be tricky.Triggering is automatic and programmed. It's a programmable scope with special jitter program. It does have some limi... | |
| DACs and bass response? FWIW, my next improvement attempt (which will happen in the coming days, not weeks or months) will be to use shorting caps on the inputs to lower my already very low noise floor.This is a mod that will have little effect IME. Inputs that are not ... | |
| Roon Sound Quality Depends mostly on jitter. If you are using a USB interface or S/PDIF now and go to an integrated Ethernet interface, the jitter may be lower. It is on my products. With Ethernet though, you must ground the DC common on your router if you go wire... | |
| DACs and bass response? I believe it to be difficult for hobbyists to determine exactly what they want or need in their stereos, especially in an age where most consumers will make purchases via the internet rather than making comparisons in the dealers show room.This is... | |
| DACs and bass response? Take a look at these plots:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154425.0 | |
| DACs and bass response? Here is what I determined by designing and building many digital cables, and making measurements on those and others:1) the 75 ohm impedance of the cable is critical and should be uniform over it's length2) Termination of the 75 ohm cable to RCA p... | |
| DACs and bass response? It’s hard to believe that a DAC designer wouldn’t use effective caps in their design.It is, but I would not have had a lucrative modding business for 10 years if it was not the case.I trust my ears also. I have to because measurements just don't ... | |
| DACs and bass response? However, if a device passes the J-test with perfect results then one can only conclude that all distortion spuriae including any jitter of any sort are all below the noise floor.This assumes that the DAC has excellent HF response and transient res... | |
| DACs and bass response? That Arte Forma SET amplifier seems like a very high tier no nonsense effort. No doubt that it is exceptionally honest, open, transparent and natural in its sonic character. I suspect it is quite capable of revealing the fine nuances of the variou... |