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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player

Post Subject: The problems in the DAW's switching PS?Posted by alexd on: 12/18/2008

You are right, the DAC18 is 16 bits device, we could not find many sources of 24 Bits material being output in digital form via SPDIF or USB.
Due to the Digital Copyright Law, no devices can output (in digital form) anything higher than 16 Bits / 48 Khz signal.
So most of the equipment makers (cd transports, sound cards, etc....) either convert the signal to 16 bits /44.1Khz/48Khz or mute the output completely.
To answer your second question the noise is the major factor contributing to jitter.
I can get very technical about it with simulation plots, calculations, etc... But I am not sure I'd like to do it on the forum. It could be very boring for non engineers.
To answer your question about DAW output vs tuner. Well Tuner is not highest quality source to start with. I do not think you will hear much difference between DAW analog output and tuner analog output.

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