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Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

RE: Digital improving -final

Optical playback is dead in high-end audio. For a reason. It wasn't complaints over convenience of CD (vs. LP). It was sound, son. Disc treatments and disk drives were better. If you can afford the Esoteric transports, then this changes things. But not too many can stretch for this.

This is not a debate over magnetic shielding. My point stemmed from linear power supplies, which have problems. That's why we (now) have Hynes regulators, Bybee shunt devices and (in the last 10 years) the 'switch' to SMPS by many names in audio. Benchmark at the low end of price, and co. like Soulution on the high. SMPS have transformers but are much smaller.

Then, it's not difficult to shield magnetics ? Benchmark engineer said so -but let's say he's wrong, look at the measures they take with hard-disk drives and MRI machines. They do it -but it's not "easy".

On jitter -I'll let you disagree with engineers who say that it's -very much- a separate, undesirable noise. If it's a timing problem, how does this hurt the amplitude/frequency spectrum ? Which it clearly does. And why are outboard clocks better ? The designers will tell you lower noise.

And it's hard to find -anyone- out there who says "clocks are not accurate". You are saying strange (and foolish) things...





Edits: 04/14/16 04/14/16 04/14/16 04/14/16 04/14/16

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