Spdif source switching?

"I believe it is designed to minimize jitter. "

Its maybe designed to minimize the jitter ADDED. There will always be jitter added, unless its reclocked.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

hound - this switch lke all similar switches will work, however they will add to the jitter, not improve it like a reclocker will. The SQ will suffer.
Steve N.
Emporical Audio

The optimum device would be a Sychro-Mesh. It is the best reclocker on the market and has Toslink and coax inputs with a selector switch. The SM will improve your audio quality significantly by reducing jitter. I used to mod the Monarchy DIP. Even with mods, not even close. The SM has money-back guarantee, less shipping. If it does not knock your socks off, return it.

the Synchro-Mesh:

http://www.empiricalaudio.com/products/synchro-mesh

Reviews:

http://www.empiricalaudio.com/news-and-reviews/synchro-mesh

This will be the best system upgrade you have ever done, and its the right place to put your money. More important than even the DAC.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

It is not perfect, nor is it quite as good as an Off-Ramp 5, but some of the new upsampler chips are extremely good. This is one of them.

It makes a marked improvement in most systems because the jitter reduction makes a bigger impact than being bit-perfect.

BTW, for all reading this, Cerrot is my constant critic, on anything that I say here. I would recommend to just ignore it.

Thanks,

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

Ozzy - the SM has improved quite a lot in 2013. You may have had an earlier version.

What were you comparing the SM to?

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

I don't know who Ozzy is.