The latter’s internal oscillators, implemented to re-clock the incoming data stream, are extremely sensitive to electrical noise, which can easily disturb their timing accuracy. Look into its eyes: lights on, nobody home.Īlso influencing a DAC’s audible performance, perhaps to a degree greater than jitter, is the electrical noise (EMI/RFI) ingested by said DAC when umbilically connected to its source, often a consumer grade PC, to DAC.

Jitter causes D/A converters to perform sub-optimally, lending the resulting sound an emotionally distant quality. It comes unstuck when digital audio devices like D/A converters play receiver (point B) where the arrival timing of each bit matters bit-to-bit mis…timings are referred to as jitter.

So too when sending a print job out over USB. If points A and B are computers seeing a file being relocated from one to the other, the ‘bits are bits’ logic holds fast. The corollary: if all binary data gets from point A to point B – and error checking mechanisms ensure it does – then data transmission is all that matters. Number 2? “It’s just ones and zeroes, mate”. It’s the number one mantra turned meme to infect mainstream thinking on digital audio. Support for CD and DVD database and support for popular handheld players, Sony PSP and PlaysForSure devices.“Bits are bits”. Unique media browsing views for faster, easier and more powerful file search and play. Drag-and-drop for easy Playlist creation.

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