John
This podcast has been months in the making planning. Mark Jenkins (of Antipodes Audio) and I bounced emails back and forth in March to discuss how he might best tackle such a complex topic: “Why do some digital audio sources sound different to others?”. April vanished. May came and went with Munich High-End. Then June disappeared whilst Jenkins was travelling. Then there’s the time difference between us. Jenkins is in New Zealand and I’m in Germany; it took us until 22nd July for him to be free in the evening and me in the morning.
The conversation itself is super technical (on Mark’s part — he’s the expert, not me) and perhaps a little dry to start with — but stick with it as it really comes together in the end. Listen via SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, TuneIn or the embedded player below:
Further reading/watching:
Thorsten Loesch on USB audio gremlins exposed
Gordon Rankin on why USB audio quality varies
OnSight: an afternoon with MBL’s Jürgen Reis
Innuos’ Nuno Vitorino on ‘Why isn’t digital audio “just ones and zeroes”?’
Bits is Bits? (Stereophile, March 1996)
Jitterbuggin’ (Stereophile, November 1994)
