But if someone has compared it and sees a benefit and a value i would let it be...:cheers:
Each to their own, and each may, as I said, do what the will with their own money. However, whilst there are many things audiphile where I simply disagree with my friends, but each to their own, or where I chuckle and pass on by, this sort of thing extends beyond extravagance and fun into the criminal.
...I understand that they are transmitting bits but they sound different. I guess they are yet to figure out why.
There are two ends to a cable, and there are pieces of circuitry on either end. There are different implementations of digital-audio protocols. I see no problem at all with the
supposedly identical data not being identical at all by the time it reaches the
actual dac in the DAC. On the contrary, I wonder if, from that DAC chip's point of view, looking at its alternative feeds, the idea of
bit-perfect actually exists!
However, TCP/IP/ethernet is not an audio transmission protocol, it is a data delivery system and, it delivers with error correction. I was reading an article a few weeks ago saying that we should throw away all the other digital audio connections, and use it as the audio connector of the future.
The data leaves one network adapter and arrives at another, where the packets are assembled, in correct order, and having been checked for errors. Bye-bye noise; bye-bye jitter, all those sorts of concerns ...gone. If this system breaks down, it is because it is
actually broken, not because the colour of the conductors doesn't fit somebody's myth.
May be the envelopes would reach in a better shape.
No. If they don't reach in the
exactly right shape then there is a fault in the delivery system. They must reach on time, of course:
IP over carrier pigeon will
never do for music, but an old piece of 10Mb coax thin ethernet, if one can still get it and its cards, will probably do just fine, never mind all this Cat-
n stuff of more recent decades.
Now I've done disrupting this thread. Sorry sidvee! I was hoping to be reading about your DAC, but then I had a nasty shock.