Does removing "interface jitter" help, if my source has jitter?
Any jitter on S/Pdif will be suppressed. It doesn’t matter what introduced this jitter (CDP or digital cable). It’s unanimous! Almost unheard-of on Agon.Little too quick on the trigger there sunshine If this were correct there would be no difference to be heard (and there is I’ve heard it https://ibb.co/YdpJMJs ) if a separate word clock cable was used to sync both transport and dac off the one "dac clock", instead of them using their own clocks. Cheers George |
The Benchmark DAC 3 distortion and noise level is -140db no need to worry about jitter induced distortion. This is true of competently engineered modern DACs. There are even a few R2R DACs that manage to keep distortion and noise below human audibly but I wouldn't waste money on them they're overpriced. The RME ADI 2 FS is very good DAC that's cheaper than the Benchmark. |
Benchmark does not recover clock from the data. It ignores it (asynchronous rate converter). Benchmark specifies insane jitter tolerance of 12.75 UI bellow 3kHz and 1.5 UI above it. At audible frequency of 10kHz jitter tolerance would be 0.1ms * 1.5 UI = 0.15ms. That is still insane amount of jitter (0.15us typical jitter will be more likely). Benchmark defines tolerance as "With no measurable change in performance". Perhaps we can hear what is "no measurable" but we're talking 1000x difference between typical jitter and Benchmark's tolerance. |
I am thinking of upgrading my DAC3B to the Gustard X26 Pro. https://soundnews.net/sources/dacs/gustard-x26-pro-dac-review/ |
