[davidsh]

In more cheerful news, this is making the rounds on the first page of the Portable Headphones forum

http://www.head-fi.org/t/726569/review-tour-somic-mh412-viper4android-the-put-up-or-shut-up-review-and-tour

Interesting stuff going on there, I suppose you corrected for 6-8 kHz ear canal resonance, or..? I mean that varies from person to person after all.

 

[MasterKuni]

I would like to take this moment to thank you all for being paragons of sanity in the often wildly misguided world of HiFi.  I can only stomach reading so many recommendations for tube amps and $500 cables, or 6moons reviews describing my headphones as being "dark and chewy" before my brain starts leaking out of my ears.

 

[SilverEars]

I notice NAD got sold off to Danish AudioNord.  I saw this on the AudioNord's website

, hope NAD is still separate from them.
 

 

[miceblue]

I would like to take this moment to thank you all for being paragons of sanity in the often wildly misguided world of HiFi.  I can only stomach reading so many recommendations for tube amps and $500 cables, or 6moons reviews describing my headphones as being "dark and chewy" before my brain starts leaking out of my ears.

I never trusted 6moons' so-called "reviews." They always seems like a bunch of baloney; I'm surprised some people actually read and believe them... :/

 

[bigshot]

This is the best 6moons review ever...
http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/edge3/edge3.html

 

[miceblue]

Oh gawd, anything but the stone. How much did they get paid to "review" that? T_T

 

[Cankin]

It has to be a joke, look at the manufacturer's site
 
http://www.machinadynamica.com/

 

[KamijoIsMyHero]

Look legit IMO Everybody should use Dark Matter to clean their CDs to ensure no foreign materials could have seeped through the CDs after every playthrough.

 

[spook76]

Look legit IMO Everybody should use Dark Matter to clean their CDs to ensure no foreign materials could have seeped through the CDs after every playthrough.

Forget selling dark matter to suckers, they should submit their findings to the Nobel Committee. Proof of the existence of dark matter is an instant $1.2M to accompany the Nobel Prize in Physics.

 

[KamijoIsMyHero]

I think selling it to audiophiles around the world would net them higher revenue than just 1.2 mil, possibly

 

[oly22]

for CDs, jitter is about the only thing you have to worry about. But there are algorithms to deal with that.

 

[stv014]

  for CDs, jitter is about the only thing you have to worry about. But there are algorithms to deal with that.

 
If you mean jitter reading the CD (causing skips and stutter), that is mostly not a problem on newer drives. I found that cheap DVD-RW drives in PCs can read audio CDs correctly at full speed with no software error correction, unless the disk is bad. Although the errors might indeed be fixed by algorithms in the firmware. An old CD-ROM drive I had in the 1990s did require software jitter correction.
 
Jitter on the DAC output should not be an audible issue with competently designed hardware.

 

[blades]

  for CDs, jitter is about the only thing you have to worry about. But there are algorithms to deal with that.

 
Not necessary since jitter isn't audible.

 

[SilverEars]

I would think the information is buffered before processing, so the CD is just to read and buffered so that there is not timing issues of reading the bits straight from the CD.

 

[davidsh]

  I would think the information is buffered before processing, so the CD is just to read and buffered so that there is not timing issues of reading the bits straight from the CD.

Yet, you still need some kind of processing to determine whether you got all the bits correct eg. to avoid jitter. A buffer gives more room for corrections, doesn't correct by itself.