Friend, at least I am an Optical guy.I don’t know if it’s just me but I never had any luck liking digital coax sound quality. Many here would rather use coax over toslink.
@onlyoneme if not asking too much again, I always wondered how jitter is shown in a 32 multitone test. Can you also do with and without PLL too?
Hang on, audiophiles hate measurements in generalDo you have the data back up your claim? We and the rest of audiophile only believe if there’s a credible evidence such as from precision audio. This is why I like reviewer like Erin and gene. They say things based on measurements to back up their claim.
Only two? Or only one?Thanks heaven I am not an "audiophile" but a simple enthusiast. And I love measurements!! Done by people knowing what they are publishing. In this forum my counting of these members reaches two only. A lot of charlatans around.
Yes ok... But just seeing the jitter spikes on the coax vs toslink on the graphs you posted, if those alone were an indicator of real world performance, you would say that toslink has less spikes and it should therefore be better connection because it will transfer less jitter... Not mentioning the total galvanic isolation that toslink offers. So theory in my case does not fully agree with the real world perception. Placebo ? I dont know the carbon costs 140 euros and it is highly rated, while my qed coax can be found for 60 euros?So no placebo....The only thing is that jitter suppression is better on coax than optical in my dac, but if the source is less jittery on toslink than coax it still does not explain the notable difference although subjective and delicate and questionable...but to me it is not questionable. I have just regretted the money spent on a toslink cable...Might be something around the dac, might be cables itself. I had none of them.
And talking about subjective impressions is a delicate thing.
It sounds like you are asking for your entire setup to be Measured and Debugged (or is that Debunked?). Better have a discussion of Airfare with Onlyoneme...Yes ok... But just seeing the jitter spikes on the coax vs toslink on the graphs you posted, if those alone were an indicator of real world performance, you would say that toslink has less spikes and it should therefore be better connection because it will transfer less jitter... Not mentioning the total galvanic isolation that toslink offers. So theory in my case does not fully agree with the real world perception. Placebo ? I dont know the carbon costs 140 euros and it is highly rated, while my qed coax can be found for 60 euros?So no placebo....The only thing is that jitter suppression is better on coax than optical in my dac, but if the source is less jittery on toslink than coax it still does not explain the notable difference although subjective and delicate and questionable...but to me it is not questionable. I have just regretted the money spent on a toslink cable...
What other measurements can we think of that can affect the analogue conversion?
Agree! It doesn’t matter how other people think as long you like what you hear is all that matters. Tube amp has high distortion of 10% but other translate that as pleasing sound. Audiophile are purist want maximum signal integrity bypassing anything that would colored the sound like tone control.Jitter or not, I enjoy music of my choice. Happy listening!