14 Jun
2011
14 Jun
'11
1:22 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 09:14 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
no, you did make a mistake. your test (to the extent that i understand
it) didn't sync anything. you used two different D/A converters
without a common word clock. even with the same word clock, they would
not necessarily be synced because they may buffer different number of
samples internally in front of the actual D/A circuitry. but this is
sort of irrelevant because you didn't actually sync anything together
at all as far as i could tell.
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
Thanks, that was what I wanted to know, so it's not broken. I didn't
expect that, I was told that when synced "NOTHING" would differ. I
claimed that I don't believe this and seemingly I didn't mistake. It's
important to be aware of this ;). Hi,
I made a sound check, that isn't a valid test, just a test to get a
coarse impression, but it's positive that for the 'RME analog out / ADAT
out test' the signals were out of phase.
I have no idea why you would expect two analog signal paths with
independent D/A conversion would ever be in phase. No valid test, just a test to hear, if at least the
sound quality of a
(less good?) CD player is reached, fortunately it is reached, even with
the elCheapo Terratec, 44.1 KHz it's quasi equal for the RME, Terratec,
first of all, CD players don't do direct digital audio playback. the
audio you get telling the disc to play an audio CD is different than
you get when reading it as a digital storage medium. secondly, you
appear to have made the cardinal error of trying to do psycho-acoustic
testing without using even blind, let alone double blind testing. this
means that your assessment is meaniningless. if you don't believe me,
try watching (at least the first 2 speakers) of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYTlN6wjcvQ
(a video that anyone with any pretensions to being an audio engineer
needs to watch, assuming they can listen to english).
please note that i did not that say that your assessment is *wrong*.
but the way you did it is. your conclusion about sound quality might
be right, but its equally likely to be wrong.