Quote Originally Posted by magiccarpetride View Post
Overall, not even a trace of harshness, hardness or sibilance. But at the expense of losing some crystal clarity in the highs I was getting from the Caiman (I must say I kind of miss that glassy hardness, I guess I inadvertently became the victim of another Stockholm syndrome). Or was it just jitter and digital noise that Caiman was giving me and I was interpreting it as a musical signal?
The Caiman relied on a receiver chip that has a old style jitter performance (i.e. not state of the art). The Bushmaster uses a crystal locked oscillator instead, which has also been kept away from any other nearby oscillation circuits. This is one of the reasons why the so "familiar" jitter harshness in digital music files isn't present in the Bushmaster. I expect other designers to copy that section of my design once they have figured out how it operates.