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Using an old CD player to Make a DAC
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<blockquote data-quote="gbyleveldt" data-source="post: 48651" data-attributes="member: 122"><p>It doesn't sound like anything. What it does do is subtract details. Things like blurring of the image, higher levels of distortion, worse noise floor, take your pic.</p><p></p><p>What happens is rather technical and when you fully understand what it does, you'll realise why SPDif and USB are such bad interconnect mediums. Ethernet is muuuuch better, but I2S is the best. But, in a nutshell, jitter is the result of your data not arriving at the correct clock points in your stream. Worst case, this may cause a "1" where it was supposed to be a "0". The "1" was sent, just at the wrong time. I2S is the best because the clock and the data are separated, where with the others the clock is part of the data. Where the clock is part of the data, you need a PLL to extract the clock and therin lies the potential problem.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I digress. I must be honest that I don't know the Medi8ter so shouldn't comment, hehe! It may well be that you have good results with it, it will just never be as good as a dedicated CD transport. My opinion though <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gbyleveldt, post: 48651, member: 122"] It doesn't sound like anything. What it does do is subtract details. Things like blurring of the image, higher levels of distortion, worse noise floor, take your pic. What happens is rather technical and when you fully understand what it does, you'll realise why SPDif and USB are such bad interconnect mediums. Ethernet is muuuuch better, but I2S is the best. But, in a nutshell, jitter is the result of your data not arriving at the correct clock points in your stream. Worst case, this may cause a "1" where it was supposed to be a "0". The "1" was sent, just at the wrong time. I2S is the best because the clock and the data are separated, where with the others the clock is part of the data. Where the clock is part of the data, you need a PLL to extract the clock and therin lies the potential problem. Anyway, I digress. I must be honest that I don't know the Medi8ter so shouldn't comment, hehe! It may well be that you have good results with it, it will just never be as good as a dedicated CD transport. My opinion though ;) [/QUOTE]
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