Pro vs Non-Pro Top End

[yabaVR]

The jitter on the recording stays but with e.g. good source and a Mutec and a fine USB + AES-EBU cables, you would likely get very little jitter added to the already present jitter on the recording.
If a Devialet is treated with fine power cable/seperate power line/footers/etc. to produce very low jitter inside while processing the music signal then everything will sound quiet nice I would say.
It is the combination of jitter of every part of the system in sum that makes the good or bad performance of a Devialet. I think this is often misunderstood.

gui

Hi gui,

Makes sense but why would the treble sound harsher if the only thing I am replacing in the chain is the upgraded amp? Since the sources, power cables, etc., remain unchanged, I assume that the amount of jitter is constant when comparing the pro vs. the non-pro.

BB

It's difficult with words. Everybody gets a different picture when we talk about 'more open' and 'more transparent'. I like to use analogies to get the picture.

You won't notice the ripples of a stone thrown into a troubled sea, but you see every oscillation of that stone thrown into a mirror surfaced lake.
The psychoacoustic here is that the ripple of the stone is the same in both scenarios but as it gets more to your attention with the mirror surfaced lake and it bothers you more (a profound jitter).
The brain is united with the even surface by the first second (it's closer to natural). It is it's new standard but then there comes this profound jitter and it bothers it more than before though it being the same as before...and...I may be all wrong about this.

Here's another one.
When speaking of 'more open' think of lighter.
If you have e.g. a pendulum and you induce a power on it, it would deflect to a certain amount.
If it then was a ligther pendulum you induce the same power it would deflect to a greater amount. The PROs are lighter/easier to oscillate on influences. They react with a greater deflection.

gui