Well, you have had problems hearing any differences from the beginning, while Shahrose did not. You both have the same modification unit. You both have similar DACs and very good equipment so the reason why you don't hear any differences, and Shahrose does, might very well be the clock issue..... which might not turn out to be a wild goose chase after all.
There is no question that my large clocked replacementFace sounded better than my small clocked originalFace and Shamu reported a similar thing when he compared the two of them... There is also the fact that Regal replaced his small clock mod with a large clock mod, at his own expense, because Marco wouldn't exchange it for him.
On the other side of the coin, xdanny couldn't hear any differences between his small clock and a borrowed large clock version through his speaker rig.... but I'm wondering if he opened the borrowed unit to see what was in it? (many apologies if pics of the internals of the borrowed unit were already posted, and even more if it was not xdanny who did the large clock-small clock comparison)
So bottom line: open it up, inquiring minds need to know.......
USG
Ok. So I opened it and it wasn't near as difficult as I thought and here's a photo.
So, am I using the small or large clocks? After looking at images in the other thread addressing clock size, I see that I have the larger clocks. Again, I'm not in the least surprised.
aimlink,
Nice pic. It is quite easy to open up the modded unit. I was quite impressed with John's work when I opened mine up.
Are you relieved to know that you have 2 big clocks?
Will you be keeping the attenuator in your system?
Ok. So I opened it and it wasn't near as difficult as I thought and here's a photo.
So, am I using the small or large clocks? After looking at images in the other thread addressing clock size, I see that I have the larger clocks. Again, I'm not in the least surprised.
You had mentioned that only a decent DAC will detect differences between transports and I agree with this only if upsampling is disabled. I'm unable to disable upsampling on mine. Does this limitation make it not decent enough?
If the Bryson's upsampling can be disabled, then it should be able to differentiate two transports with significant differences in jitter. However, with effective upsampling, the inferior transport will sound better to the point where it's inaudibly different from the transport with low jitter.
Finally, without some objective testing, a lot of the testimony here has to be taken for what it is..., i.e., a subjective assessment. You therefore have to be careful in how you respond to it in terms of chasing after a similar experience. You may well never get it, even with identical setups. On that note, I'm thinking that it's time for me to stop.
