Mat
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I bought a Wiim Pro to compare Airplay streaming against my Airport Express and I need a little objectivity because A/B testing is getting neurotic and I'm not sure if perceived differences are in my head.
The Airport Express has enough jitter that a cheaper DAC I tested can't lock the signal without skipping like a CD discman. It also has some noise injected in the signal that I only discovered thanks to this thread, but would otherwise not have noticed. The Wiim on the other hand is clean and measures great here.
The thing is, my DAC has an internal buffer and reclocks the signal. This results in no skipping/locking issues I found with the other DAC. I've been using the Airport as a streamer for the past year and thought it was great.
My question is: Would reclocking make both streamers equal in the end, or is giving the dac a signal with less jitter to reclock going to affect sound quality for the better in any way?
The Airport Express has enough jitter that a cheaper DAC I tested can't lock the signal without skipping like a CD discman. It also has some noise injected in the signal that I only discovered thanks to this thread, but would otherwise not have noticed. The Wiim on the other hand is clean and measures great here.
The thing is, my DAC has an internal buffer and reclocks the signal. This results in no skipping/locking issues I found with the other DAC. I've been using the Airport as a streamer for the past year and thought it was great.
My question is: Would reclocking make both streamers equal in the end, or is giving the dac a signal with less jitter to reclock going to affect sound quality for the better in any way?