Earle Decker Posted November 13, 2001 Share Posted November 13, 2001 I have 1 of these floating around and dont realy know what it does. I used it a a SCMS defeater when I was trading alot of DATs. Can someone tell me what this is for? Earle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Garrison Posted November 14, 2001 Share Posted November 14, 2001 The Audio Alchemy DTI is a widget that takes the digital stream coming from your source (CD transport, laserdisc player, digital out from CD/DVD player), reclocks it using a (hopefully) more accurate clock than the one in the source component, then sends this reclocked signal on along to your D/A converter. Back when the DTI was released, there were a lot of components, particularly laserdisc players, where the engineering that went into the digital output was somewhat less than steller. The high levels of "jitter", or clock-induced decoding errors, was quite high. By reclocking the signal prior to the D/A stage, this jitter was reduced. Newer transports, by and large, have a signal which is at least as accurate as the original DTI, although I have heard some improvement when using the DTI with an early generation DVD player. Note that the DTI will only lock onto and pass a CD-standard, 44.1kHz 16 bit signal, so if you pop a DVD into the player with the DTI connected to the digital output, you get a really awful sound of chattering relays as the poor thing trys to figure out what you're feeding it. Note that there is a BIG difference between the DTI, which is a jitter reducing buffer, and the various DTI Pro series products, which are resolution enhancement widgets. Click the following link for a rather exhaustive review, by Robert Harley back in 1993. http://www.stereophile.com/fullarchives.cgi?368 Ray ------------------ Music is art Audio is engineering Ray's Music System Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earle Decker Posted November 14, 2001 Author Share Posted November 14, 2001 Ray, I was hoping you would pop up here. Thnaks for the info and the link. Exhustive is a good description of the artical, but it did answer some more questions. The biggest answer is I DONT NEED IT. Hard to believe it retailed for $349. Is there a market for the DTI? thanks again Earle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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