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RE: I think then we are using different terms for the same thing

"I do have to tell you though, and I am sure that this will be no news to you, that more than one engineer has told me that if a DAC cannot cope with such small levels of induced jitter, it was either incompetently designed or is broken, and therefore all properly-fabricated, non-broken digital cables sound the same."

This pretty much covers every DAC that has ever been made, although few designers seem to be honest enough to admit this applies to their products. There is another side to this. Even if such a DAC were to be made, there would be few subjective audiophiles honest enough to admit that they could not hear any differences caused by digital cables.

Removing noise from digital signals is well understood in the field of military electronics, where it is needed in encryption devices that must keep separate "red" signals corresponding to classified information from leaking into "black" signals being sent over cables or airwaves. If as much money flowed into high end audio as flowed into military electronics our problems with digital cables would have long been solved.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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