Jitter is obviously bad in an objective sense but HiFi News Have given rave reviews to the Metronome Kalista CD player at £32000 and the even more expensive separate Transport/DAC combo at £72000. The jitter measured on the former with CD is 720 psec and the latter 1205 psec.
These are very high compared to everything else they have tested, with Chord products being typically 10 psec And dCS typically less than 50 psec.
Is this level possibly high enough to actually be audible, and if so is there any form it could take which may sound “nice”?
I fear it could be just the pretty styling and reassuringly high price which is influencing their expectation bias but...
These are very high compared to everything else they have tested, with Chord products being typically 10 psec And dCS typically less than 50 psec.
Is this level possibly high enough to actually be audible, and if so is there any form it could take which may sound “nice”?
I fear it could be just the pretty styling and reassuringly high price which is influencing their expectation bias but...