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In Reply to: RE: It depends on the DAC posted by Scrith on March 30, 2014 at 10:29:47
"It depends on the DAC"
You would like to think/assume this but it is not reality IMO.
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the Lauck/IT Guys' doctrine. We know that dacs sound different but this has nothing to do with it.
My take is that different DACs (and different inputs on the same DAC) have different sensitivity to activity in the computer. What one hears is the result of a complex interaction of factors. My position is that a high quality DAC "should" provide a high degree of isolation from noise and jitter on its digital input and on its electrical power. Obviously, the amount of isolation is going to depend on engineering factors, cost, etc...
BTW, I am not and was not an "IT" guy. I was trained as a mathematician and mentored and managed a group of PhD and Masters level engineers and computer scientists. The group produced hundreds of patents for inventions in the area of computer networking. IT guys are basically technicians who install, operate, repair and provide support for computing installations. Not the same thing at all.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
"IT guys are basically technicians who install, operate, repair and provide support for computing installations."
Really? Most of the "IT guys" I know in my IT line of work have computer science degrees, electrical engineering degrees, mathematics degrees, many with advanced Masters degrees, a handful combined with MBA, plus some Ph.D.'s. And they usually make more money than the typical back-office engineers who you would never place in front of a customer. ;-)
What kind of company do you work for? Probably not the kind that Fred is constantly dismissing.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
I work for a 100,000+ employee true 'systems company' with solutions developed in house and through acquisitions ranging from disk, filesystems, flash memory, tape heads, tape drives, tape libraries, microprocessors, servers, advanced networking infrastructure, operating systems, virtualization technologies, compilers, integrated development environments, databases, middleware, applications, and complete purpose built, repeatable and scalable turnkey 'engineered systems'. ;-)
I was trained as a mathematician and mentored and managed a group of PhD and Masters level engineers and computer scientists.
Must have been fun.
I have an Honours degree in Applied Maths but I realized the huge gulf between me and those who stepped up to the next level - the PhD. It's not an easy path, and those who take it are truly gifted.
Regards,
Geoff
of us who are engineers see audio in real life situations.
Managing PhDs has nothing to do with what transpires within audio replay. There were at least two PhDs who I worked with who were idiots.
BS - Bull Sh*t
MS - More of the Same
PHD - Piled Higher and DeeperSorry, couldn't resist ...
Wish I had a math major(and then some).
Edits: 03/31/14
You don't need a BS, MS, or PhD around here... just a pair of good boots for when it gets really deep.
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