Completion and Conclusion
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What an interesting mass test again! In this field, the differences between streamers are still nice and big, which just makes it fun and educational to put the products side by side.
Which streamer is ‘the best’, we leave to you. After all: it’s your pair of ears. Do you like fresh and open? Warm and generous? Precise and tight? These are all things that influence the label: ‘the best streamer’. In short: listen to the stream and let your ears decide.
Ifi Neo stream , the optical network connection generates more noise!!!! How is that possible?
The optical should disappear noise not introduce it? Why didn’t you try with a better power supply?
Kind of ironic that an iFi product introduces noise with a supplied power supply, don’t you think?
Question, what are your settings for the dScope III? I typically use 100K input impedance, sample rate 192K, 32K FFT Prism-7 window and average over 8 samples. Your low end measurements look a little off. One thing you also have to remember is the VBUS/GND is tied to the internal supply and therefore you can get ground loops really easy when testing.
Thanks,
Gordon
Interesting test! Thank you. Going above 1000 eur by a coupld hundred the Eversolo Master version should do even better on the jitter front due to the femto clock and op amps. Would be interesting to measuer that one also.