08-Mar-2016, 20:32
All completely correct, and technically valid. However, for me it comes down to what my ears hear, and what I'm willing to pay to get 'x' level of improvement, over what I think is an already 'very good' sounding solution. But that is of course, a completely personal thing.
(08-Mar-2016, 20:15)Antoine Wrote: HF noise and jitter impacts the D to A process. I know from experience that also our Devialet's are anything but insensitive to what they're being fed through their inputs. Clean power, high quality clocks, proper isolation of digital and analog circuits and grounds matter greatly in a source and DAC.
This isn't something new and has been known for decades. Proper engineering principles are being applied to CD players and DAC's since long. Ethernet and USB are lagging behind but the business is catching up. Soon everyone won't even remember we were foolish enough to not isolate a USB input for example.
People really need to try for themselves. Saying it all doesn't matter primarily based on textbook theory, to me, is the equivalent of saying the earth is flat. Seriously, it shows either blind faith in the engineers who made the products and/or a serious lack of knowledge.