opaqueice;175930 Wrote: 
> That's a good point - that hadn't occurred to me.  EMI in the range from
> 20kHz - 40kHz would be inaudible added to the analogue output, but
> jitter at that frequency could intermodulate with the digital signal to
> produce audible distortion.  For example 25kHz jitter can produce 10kHz
> noise when a 15kHz signal is being played.  (Note that jitter >40kHz
> has no effect, assuming 20kHz is the threshhold for human hearing.)
> 
> For this to work as an explanation you need the EMI from the switcher
> to be concentrated mostly above 20kHz, which isn't consistent with the
> measurements in the thread Skunk linked to.  But still, it's an
> interesting idea...  what DAC do you use?
> 
> Thanks for the interesting comment.

I use the D/A card in my TacT RCS 2.2x (which I managed to make sound
pretty good again, don't ask my how). So I guess the DAC is the entire
TacT -with its peculiarities.

I'd like to test with a simpler DAC -preferably one without forced
sample rate conversion. Might build one for this purpose.


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