"John Phillips" wrote
in message
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."

Real world example being many tubed amps and just about every SET.

It's the uncultured
engineer's philosophy and the antithesis of the
right-minded thinking of those who enjoy music. :-)

A highly-colored audio system is an audiphile's way of making each recording
his own.