In article , John Phillips
wrote:
On 2007-05-24, Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Serge Auckland
wrote:

One DAC I saw reviewed (I can't remember which one but it was
expensive!) made the comment that it was so sensitive, it would
reveal the differences between digital cables. What this meant was
that it had such an appallingly engineered receiver that there was no
reclocking of data, and pattern jitter on the cable went uncorrected.
So much for "so sensitive", crap actually.

It *was* 'sensitive' - the problem was that it shouldn't have been!
:-)

Steady on! That's the same heresy as "an amplifier should just amplify
and its output should not depend on the particular speakers it drives."
It's the uncultured engineer's philosophy and the antithesis of the
right-minded thinking of those who enjoy music. :-)

s/music/amplifier 'sound'/ :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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