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Digital Drive Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it. |
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Digital Drive Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it. |
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In Reply to: RE: I got a question posted by Cut-Throat on May 4, 2022 at 11:50:58:
"I am one that does not perceive any differences in sound quality between streamers and CD Transports, as long as the recording is the same, the DACs are the same etc."
I have had the opposite experience...... To the extreme......
This could be at the very crux of our disagreement over digital streaming......
The difference I perceive in CD transports, DACs, streamers, and even digital cables is so different, the only thing that would be even more different to me would be a vinyl rig with the alignments dialed in versus a vinyl rig with the alignments out-of-whack...... A difference that can be listening for hours and staying up past my bedtime versus shutting it down after less than ten minutes of playback and wanting to try something else.....
I think the perceived differences are due to changes in jitter performance and RFI emissions...... I believe digital audio with jitter signature preservation of the original A/D (not necessarily "low jitter") and low RFI emissions can approach analog playback.... But digital audio playback that doesn't do well here sounds flat-out "dull" and "lifeless" to me...... And also unlistenable for extended periods of time.
In fact, when I had computer audio, I thought different ripping applications of the same CD sounded vastly different, I thought different playback applications of the same audio file sounded different, I thought defragmentation of the hard drive drastically altered the sound of music files (almost always getting worse)...... I thought even different versions of the same application to sound different..... (This became **frustrating**, because what I thought was the best application for ripping a CD was no longer the best after an update took place.... ) Not to mention different digital cables making a huge impact on the presentation..... (I think it is a big deal to use optical right before the D/A takes place, due to RFI isolation from the upstream digital electronics.)
This is the core reason why I have shied away from streaming...... (There are other reasons, most notably not knowing which pressing I would have if the original source media wasn't a physical CD from my collection.) It's the reason why a lot of people would still rather listen to vinyl..... If this wasn't a problem, I believe vinyl playback would have been dead and buried a long time ago.
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Follow Ups
- Perceived Differences........ - Todd Krieger 05/6/2217:54:13 05/6/22 (1)
- RE: Perceived Differences........ - Dawnrazor 20:41:05 05/9/22 (0)
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