"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. " —John Kenneth Galbraith
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. " —John Kenneth Galbraith
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. " —John Kenneth Galbraith
From the review:
"Most people playing their music via a computer will be using a USB DAC linked to their Windows or Mac OS machine. The slightly more intrepid might be using a Raspberry Pi for playback; this will usually be via an S/PDIF connected DAC. From my years of trying to get the best out of my computer and files playback I know that it is not as simple as zeros & ones being all you need to care about. Computers are horribly noisy beasts with lots of scope for injecting Radio Frequency Interference into your DAC and generally messing up the resulting sound." (End quote.)
Yup, that is why it's so hard to beat a good CD transport with a file player.
Not so hard when you know how...From the review:
"Most people playing their music via a computer will be using a USB DAC linked to their Windows or Mac OS machine. The slightly more intrepid might be using a Raspberry Pi for playback; this will usually be via an S/PDIF connected DAC. From my years of trying to get the best out of my computer and files playback I know that it is not as simple as zeros & ones being all you need to care about. Computers are horribly noisy beasts with lots of scope for injecting Radio Frequency Interference into your DAC and generally messing up the resulting sound." (End quote.)
Yup, that is why it's so hard to beat a good CD transport with a file player.
Not so hard when you know how...
Jitter of typical transport:
http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154408.0
Jitter of Interchange and RPI:
http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154299.0
I rest my case.
Steve N.
Empirical Audio
As we discussed, jitter is not the only issue. Also, a 'typical' transport is not every transport.
But I guess we go around in circles.
As we discussed, jitter is not the only issue. Also, a 'typical' transport is not every transport.
But I guess we go around in circles. I shouldn't have posted yet another comment that predictably elicits the typical responses.
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