I’m wondering if anyone has done comparisons of CD and/or DVDs transports via toslink or spdif?

What are your experiences? Any surprises? What make and models were involved?

  • John_Crypto_Rambo@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I don’t mean to be weird but are there people that think cd transports that give digital data to a DAC sound different? How would that work? I know about jitter but really how much could it do?

    • Zapador@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      This. People need to accept that digital is digital and that’s more or less all there is to it.

      • skingers@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I got downvoted for a very similar comment too. If there is any audible difference between Transport A and Transport B for the same DAC then one of them is doing more than transporting.

    • Hifi-Cat@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Incorrect. 2.3mm of a scratch can be error corrected. Up to 10 to 12mm is interpolated, (I don’t have the data numbers as yet) which is a guess, not music. What does this interpolation sound like? And we haven’t touched on RF noise entering the optical head, PSU noise, effective jitter reduction (noted in your link). Dutchclassics.nl noted both Philips and Sony engineers saying scuffs, scratches and fingerprints caused issues with the CDM. In 1982.