John Stimson Wrote: 
> The closer the impedance anomaly is to the transmitter or receiver, the
> closer the reflection is to the incident edge.  In a 100ns pulse, a
> reflection at a 1ns delay may not even be picked up, but a reflection
> at a 50ns delay would probably cause problems.
But the pulse width is not that important in an S/PDIF connection, it's
the transitions that are.

Reflections / impedance mismatches are rarely serious enough to cause
actual data corruption (in S/PDIF), but they can affect the timing
information contained in the rising and falling edges.


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