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decoud wrote:

The new Oppo uses the ESS Sabre32 DAC chip, which seems to maintain fidelity in the face of much higher jitter compared with others...or at least so the comparison above shows....so it might be able to achieve decent performance with a relatively poor transport section. Indeed, implementations of the Sabre32 may well be worth listening to in their own right if the manufacturer is correct in his claim that he has succeeded in decoupling signal and noise levels. See here http://www.esstech.com/PDF/sabrewp.pdf

Decoud, jitter does not exist. Jitter was invented by Jews in order to justify those 12 years they spend in schools to get their PHDs.

To be serious I would say that I have no idea what they are taking about. Each single PDF file with a new DAC chip (that shows up each 2-3 month) starts with proclamations that it is the best in the world and brings up as the evidence some insultingly good parameters. I do not even question those parameters but I have no idea how they relates to Sound. I do not know any single parameters that would make TL0 to sound bubbley and Oppo transport 83 blended. There are number of transport with immeasurable amount of jitter and it still does not manifest itself into better sound.

I am sure that there are people out there who are truly knowledgeable with digital technologies and the reasoning behind. I am not one of them. I am just a user who takes a piece of digital machine “as is” and try to evaluate how the devise is able to do what I need to be done.

BTW, a local site reader just contacted me informing that he has Oppo 95 (two models up) and that he would like to do the same test with his unit. We might do it but I think that Oppo 95 and Oppo 83 use the same transports…

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