Cybershaft Platinum Review (External Clock & PS)

[Jimbob54]

What is your purpose here?

We likely will never know . Virulent troll

 

[Doodski]

We likely will never know . Virulent troll

Thanks for the rapid response to that troll. I am impressed at the reaction time.

 

[voodooless]

Thanks for the rapid response to that troll. I am impressed at the reaction time.

I might have had something to do with that

 

[AdrianusG]

Hardware clocks, boy what a silly thing of the past. Sadly the mumbo jumbo on these is or was very prevalent in the studio work. I'll never forget this ad I saw.

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Here's a testimonial from a tapeop editor.

"For example, I’ve found that I’m using less eq now, and probably a little less compression as well. I’m now able to hear that I went slightly too far in the 4k range on an accordion. The sound of the accordion was bothering me before, but I wasn’t sure what the exact culprit was. In addition, the reverb eq is more prominent with the III."

People like this are literally the worst engineers ever, they're totally ignorant to the mental aspect of listening and how it changes from day to day. Like my dude, you just weren't feeling it before, and hopped back in when you were feeling it, obviously you're gonna get better results when you're doing something you feel like doing.

"The sound of the accordion was bothering me before,"

It bothers me too, but has nothing to do with internal or external clocks though

 

[AdrianusG]

@amirm
I really enjoyed your review. Thank you. I read it very carefully and understood what you were doing and saying. What does 256K point FFT, 16 averages mean ? Does that mean you're plotting 256,000 fourier coefficients/points in the spectrum and doing it 16 times and averaging the results? Please explain it to a non EE person. Also, although the issue is moot, I'm wondering if a different kind of cable would have produced less jitter, better approximating the internal clock of the DAC ? and could it have even been better than the internal clock ? But even if it were, the audio listener couldn't tell the difference anyway.

I wonder if the super expensive dCs D/A converters using external clocks that they sell and that cost as much as a Porsche are just as useless ? haha

I wonder if the super expensive dCs D/A converters using external clocks that they sell and that cost as much as a Porsche are just as useless ? haha

The answer is very likely YES, about 99,999% i'm guessing