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In Reply to: Native? posted by audioengr on February 15, 2007 at 19:40:58:
The main culprits for bad computer audio playback are:Software mismanagement:
- Poorly designed software volume control
- Truncating to 16-bit
- Sample-rate converting
- Other DSPHardware mismanagement:
- DAC, etc unable to handle high jitter levels common with computer outputsAn ideal computer-audio playback path will get the digital information to the DAC without corrupting it whatsoever, just as we expect from any high quality transport.
The USB audio solution developed for the DAC1 USB is tested and proven to be bit-transparent. This means, if the media player (iTunes, etc) is set up properly, every digital bit that was originally present in the audio file will be perfectly transmitted to the DAC1 USB. This was tested using "Bittest", a bit-tranparency test from Audio Precision.
Further, due to the UltraLock clocking mechanism, the DAC1's immunity to Jitter make it the perfect counterpart to computer-based digital audio playback.
In fact, when playing a 96/24 test tone from the computer's USB port, the performance from the DAC1 USB is just as good as from a high quality transport.
Hope this helps!!
Elias Gwinn
Engineer
Benchmark Media System, Inc
http://www.BenchmarkMedia.com
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