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mdalton

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07-15-2024 at 11:41pm 

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Great post. Mind posting the actual image next time? I ain’t clicking on your links man. 

@soix you don't want to waste your time - so don't. And yet you keep posting long diatribes without any note of science. They are pretty personally insulting too and you also apparently acquired some right to speak for the community? 

You don't like someone's opinion? It is a free country. At least I am not insulting anyone. So yeah, take a hike.

@mdalton - Amen. If it is engineering, they must be able to show what is it, exactly. Maybe even have a patent. Otherwise it is vapor.

@invalid - true with Sony, but engineers were easily able to show jitter issue with DACs. Nothing fancy. Audio CDs were never designed to be bit perfect delivery of data. But networks are.

As is USB protocol. We don’t connect hard drives, smartphones or cameras to PCs over SPDIF or Toslink for a reason. But we don’t lose phone backups, pictures or signed house deeds when sending data over USB or networks. Financial industry operates over same protocols sending money. Military send missile launch orders.

"Ethernet cleaners" can never explain what is that they do.

And for some reason cloud datacenters that stores all those Tidal files never use $$$ USB or Ethernet cables. Google network engineers would have a good laugh if offered 'cleaned Ethernet' or 'upgraded network cables'.

The important part of this exercise is that you can now upgrade either DAC or streamer as needed when tech changes. I just dumped good $$$ on speakers that will allow me to upgrade from an $8k McIntosh integrated (that I enjoy) when I feel the sound needs something else.