People who spend tens of thousands on 'high-end' stuff like to buy
equipment that makes jitter audiable, so that their expensive CD
player sounds different than a cheap one and they can feel superior.
A well designed DAC should not do this.

Something to do with better kit does a better job of showing up flaws,
hence, really good kit sounds crap? ;-)

In many places better equipment should show the flaws, for example a good
quality TFT monitor shows mpeg arifacts on DVDs that aren't obvious on a
normal TV.
But designing the equipment specially so that imperfections stand out is a
different thing altogether.

I was wondering if coax is susceptible to electronic noise. I notice
that my
player has a phono socket for the coax output - is a standard phono cable
okay for this?

Likely be fine, although technically it should be 75ohm coax, like TV
aerial cable. I wouldn't worry about noise, coax is pretty good at
rejecting it and we're talking about tiny bandwidth.

Indeed. Get a few reviews, avoid the idiot high end and you'll be
fine.

I'll see if I can sort out a short list of stuff that goes for under
200. I
see there are a few units that go for as little as 50-75 quid.


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