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A "bit" of information

Besides word clock jitter, which some DACs are capable of almost eliminating (Benchmark DAC-1), what other things can make one transport sound different from another? Aren't they just machines that spit out a stream of ones and zeros? Is it all just cosmetics for more money?

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kana813
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The power supply design, common-mode noise, EMI/RF, pulse aberration,quailty of the parts/design of the digital output circut, vibration control and the power cord all can effect on the sound quality?
kana813
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"This is why computer audio is intrinsically better than CD playback. The pits are jittery as written on the disk. The Transport also adds jitter when it reads these pits, because each read head has different accuracy of reading the pits."

And the cheap CD drives in PCs don't add jitter when they
read the data on to the HD, and the noisy PC PSU doesn't effect the output signal?
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