Monarchy DIP or SF Ultra jitterbug in chain w/ newer DACS??

byteme · « **on:** 25 Mar 2003, 07:19 pm »

Does it make sense (i.e. provide sonic benefit) to toss something in the chain to reduce jitter before a current DAC? Specifically I'm running a McCormack SST-1 transport and Channel Islands VDA-1 or Scott Nixon tubedac.

Anton · « **Reply #1 on:** 11 Apr 2003, 09:45 pm »

I use two SF Ultrajitterbugs in series before my DAC (MSB Gold Link DAC III with P1000 power base) and they make a difference.

JoshK · « **Reply #2 on:** 11 Apr 2003, 09:52 pm »

Forget jitterbugs and what-not and upgrade the clock to a superclock or other in the transport itself.

eico1 · « **Reply #3 on:** 11 Apr 2003, 10:16 pm »

maybe because it's at the dac that counts(pun, sorta). A good clock at the transport will not help if the jitter is caused from lousy transmitter and receiver circuit performance. At least if your using a dac with internal sample rate converter I wouldn't bother, just more chance to further muck thinks up. Not that that may not be preferable to some.

steve

byteme · « **Reply #4 on:** 12 Apr 2003, 05:11 am »

I ended up talking to Scott Nixon on this and he said he'd familiar with the SST-1 transport and that if I already HAD something like the jitterbut or simlar that it wouldn't hurt to put it in the chain, but if I didn't that adding it or going out to get it wouldn't help. Apparently the SST-1 has a pretty excellent coax out engineered into it so it doesn't need much help. This fits with what I heard from Steve McCormack, however, since he actually built the thing I took it with a grain of salt until corroborated by Scott.

Thanks for the help!