Digital Signal Transmission

[davide256]

18 hours ago, TomJ said:

 

Its so annoying - there are so many myths about digital audio, that you can not distinguish whether it is true or only justification for the price paid.

It was so before digital came along... there were many in the early 80's that insisted their $300 Denon direct drive TT's couldn't possibly be bettered in sound

by a Thorens, AR or Linn  belt drive TT. Digital audio is somewhat similar... somethings screwing up digital audio inside computing devices before it becomes a USB output.

Good power supply quality, hardware integration and software that doesn't ride a bloated OS all help to reduce the problem.  We know now that "cogging" was

the issue with DD turntables of the 80's...hopefully research will eventually figure out computer audio's dependencies and how to best design

a purpose built computer audio source