Sound differences

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(05-02-2013 16:42)Alekz Wrote:  Even more interesting. Different servers (the software that is) sound differently. (See http://www.psaudio.com/vanilla/discussio...an-psa-emm)

So far (almost?) everybody who tried both PS Audio eLyrics Music Manager (EMM) and MinimServer found that Minim sounds brighter than EMM. It's neither bad not good, but the difference is there and can be clearly heard.

Also no technical explanation.

The "usual suspects" are: buffering, flow control and conversion methods. For example, the sound quality depends on the server load, that might affect the flow. There is even a new term for that: "software jitter".

That's scary!
I can realy go in detail but technically it shouldn't be different, because the files itself have CRC, when converting they should be identical, you can do the test yourself and compare both formats.

Software jitter on digital streams ...... your stream must be that distorted that even the streamer can't rearrange the software packages internally.
It's already digital, a distorted square wave is already recognised as a logical '1' if a small top of the square is 2.5V.
Like a zip file downloaded from around the world would be received bitperfect on my computer, because if for some reason the packages are distorted it's over and out, the file won't work anymore because the checksums are different.
So i don't believe that software jitter will that have much impact.

Like simonsc said, it could be the Linn's internally.

Server load shouldn't be an issue.
See my simple Qnap TS-119 NAS converting a 24/96 flac file to pcm and sending to my streamer is hardly using processor power or ram use.

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