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In the Thread: Credibility of digital information
Post Subject: Noisy clocks and more brutal measuresPosted by el`Ol on: 5/29/2008
Romy,
I have problems in believing that a noisy clock (the lower-priced CEC drives probably have in contrast to the other drives you mentioned) can do more than covering the faults of the actual implementation (mostly regular time deviations at other parts of the data stream). I have no experience in combining highend DACs with different drives, but my experience with lower priced gear is that that the difference between drives is clearly audible, but not that huge. Is this different with real highend, or is it more because you are trained to discover minimal effects?
At this year´s Highend Burmester showed a Hollywood movie with their surround receiver. I didn´t see what video-DVD-player they were using, but it didn´t have the ultra-precise clock of the Burmester devices, for sure, not to mention that probably DTS data reduction was involved. In my ears it still sounded natural and un-electronic, just with an overall reduction of sound quality compared to CDs. I guess this is mainly an effect of the used upsampling algorithm.
I can´t say much about the dCS upsampler, because I only heard it in combination with a Lamm/Wilson combination that in my ears showed some surrealistic saccharine sweetness I found quite annoying. You mentioned some time that the sound quality "goes down the toilet" when it is actived. What is it that you don´t like about it?
Regards,
Oliver Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site