I am not a techie; but my basic understanding and one possible simple explanation is: a DVD disc generally needs a more stable platform than a simple music CD; and the DVD laser has to be able to read more complex compressed data than a CD player. Therefore, DVD players are pretty stable and make decent transports, even the cheaper ones.
Transports not important any longer?
Hello all,
As serious readers of the forum may remember, I just purchased an SFD-MKIII and DSD upsampler. I'm already finding the music to be a major improvement over my old Arcam FMJ. Another league to be honest.
Anyway, I spoke with Chris - the original founder of Sonic Frontiers (now at www.partsconnexion.com) and he said that my DVP-9000ES DVD/SACD should be a perfectly fine transport, and that though AES/EBU would be nice, it really is no longer necessary.
His reasonsing is that the SP/DIF stream is reclocked when it is upsampled in the D2D and then passed on to the DAC via the I2SE cable - and jitter drops to an astoundingly low .4ps. And jitter is not reintroduced from the upsampler to the DAC because of the clock comes to the via the I2SE.
I found this discussion quite interesting, but would love to hear other comments. To be quite honest, the sound coming out of my 9000ES->DSD->SF SFD-MKIII is astounding.
Nonetheless, like all audio-obsessed types, I wonder..
I assume this applies to the Perpetual Technologies DACs, etc.. anything which connects the upsampler to the DAC with a jitter-free connection (firewire, I2SE, and I assume I2S).
Just curious,
Adam
As serious readers of the forum may remember, I just purchased an SFD-MKIII and DSD upsampler. I'm already finding the music to be a major improvement over my old Arcam FMJ. Another league to be honest.
Anyway, I spoke with Chris - the original founder of Sonic Frontiers (now at www.partsconnexion.com) and he said that my DVP-9000ES DVD/SACD should be a perfectly fine transport, and that though AES/EBU would be nice, it really is no longer necessary.
His reasonsing is that the SP/DIF stream is reclocked when it is upsampled in the D2D and then passed on to the DAC via the I2SE cable - and jitter drops to an astoundingly low .4ps. And jitter is not reintroduced from the upsampler to the DAC because of the clock comes to the via the I2SE.
I found this discussion quite interesting, but would love to hear other comments. To be quite honest, the sound coming out of my 9000ES->DSD->SF SFD-MKIII is astounding.
Nonetheless, like all audio-obsessed types, I wonder..
I assume this applies to the Perpetual Technologies DACs, etc.. anything which connects the upsampler to the DAC with a jitter-free connection (firewire, I2SE, and I assume I2S).
Just curious,
Adam
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