Experimentation with PCs

Posted by John C. - Aussie (A) on January 18, 2003 at 14:02:46

In Reply to: Re: Both are important posted by LouD on January 18, 2003 at 04:32:01:

No, I have not delved into this but am sceptical about the results. Reason - PC drives are not concerned with slight times scale aberrations (the fundamental cause of jitter), all they are concerned with it translating the stream of bits.

Now Meridian use PC drives in their top line 800 BUT have a complex series of buffers to accurately time align the data. The results are impressive, particularly with upsampling in all 6 channels.

I have a CD ROM changer, now unused, that I guess could be adapted in similar way but I have no expertise at all in that area. It would be a fascinating challenge to do something with it but I guess the task is beyond amateurs.

BTW all my auditioning with the Marantz CC-4300 changer used the state of the art Meridian 861 V3 processor so the aberrations I detected were only due to the changer. Hence my initial reply that both are important.

John

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Topic - Which is more important - DAC or Drive? (nt) - ahjohn 06:26:53 01/17/03 (21)

Ask jj - Norm Strong 17:35:37 01/18/03 (0)

Re: Which is more important - DAC or Drive? (nt) - andre 14:19:44 01/17/03 (1)

I agree re cable (nt) - TommyK 08:20:58 01/20/03 (0)

Both are important - John C. - Aussie 14:18:56 01/17/03 (2)

Re: Both are important - LouD 04:32:01 01/18/03 (1)

Experimentation with PCs - John C. - Aussie 14:02:46 01/18/03 (0)

i tell ya.. one box cdp is hard to beat... - kuma 09:43:20 01/17/03 (1)

CES - grantv 12:06:50 01/17/03 (0)

save your money ... - TBone 08:19:19 01/17/03 (0)

Re: Which is more important - DAC or Drive? (nt) - Rodney Gold 08:18:28 01/17/03 (1)

I would have to agree. . - John PA 12:31:03 01/17/03 (0)

tweak your CD player - soil 07:55:29 01/17/03 (0)

Re: Yes;-) - Jeff Starr 07:43:02 01/17/03 (8)

Re: Yes;-) - NEAR SOTA 07:51:01 01/17/03 (7)

Re: Well - Jeff Starr 10:00:16 01/17/03 (4)

Is there such a thing as Trany\DAC Synergy? - NEAR SOTA 10:19:31 01/17/03 (3)

I converted my Sony (inexpensive) 775 optical out to dig out and . - John PA 12:29:18 01/17/03 (2)

Re: EAD transport or dac??? nt - Jeff Starr 17:00:16 01/17/03 (1)

sorry, I have both but I was referring to the transport. . - John PA 17:54:48 01/17/03 (0)

more DAC - soil 08:04:12 01/17/03 (1)

Re: more DAC - NEAR SOTA 10:22:26 01/17/03 (0)

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