Suggestions for streaming equipment

These jitter measurements are mildly interesting. Low jitter measured one way is not an end-all, otherwise a few picoseconds of jitter would be all we need and no other products would compete. Not the case.

I use a completely different direct method of measuring jitter, which requires more expensive equipment. I think this method correlates more accurately to sound quality.

I'm planning to use this method to measure the Pi as well as my own renderer. Unfortunately, they don't allow posting of photos here.

Steve N.

Empirical Audio

The sound quality is not in the streamer but in the DAC, and you already have that in your disc player.

If you use a streamer, you are using an outboard DAC. The outboard DAC will usually be sensitive to incoming signal jitter, so the streamer jitter does matter. Even DAC’s with resampling in them will usually sound better with a low-jitter input stream.

The outboard DAC enables the streamer/DAC combination to sound better than the CD player.  Better DAC, lower jitter signal.  I never listen to CD's anymore because my streamers sound much better.

I can however reclock my CD transport with my Synchro-Mesh, which brings the CD player/DAC combination almost up to the same quality as the Streamer/DAC combination.

Steve N.

Empirical Audio