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RE: Anyone see the TAS review of a $15K jitter reducer? Man oh man!

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Source jitter doesn't matter in the least "bit" (ha) with a properly constructed DAC, like the $1500 Benchmark.
Timing data is within the data stream. If the DAC has a good clock and a buffer, it can be designed to rebuild the data stream from scratch (incoming jitter doesn't matter).

This is easy to understand - When data is ripped to harddrive from a %15 computer CD drive, there is all kind of jitter. This doesn't matter however, because the irregularies in timing of the data stream are not recorded to disk.

A data buffer in a good DAC allows the same jitter "elimination". Timing is reconstructed from the INFORMATION in the datastream, not the timing of the data stream.

Any audiophile DAC that sounds better when used with an expensive CD transport has a cheap design based on a Pro DAC. (Pro DACs need to be near real time)

I know this thread is about humor, but $10,000 2 channel DAC just drive me crazy. So I take my chance to rant.



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