Phil Leigh;184345 Wrote: > Sorry Eric - I didn't mean to steal your thunder! > > I use to believe that toslink was "bad" too - until I realised what I > had in my studio was piles of the stuff! (ADAT lightpipe > anyone?)...that started me thinking...and testing...and now I don't > care - both work fine most of the time...but sometimes toslink can help > (certainly my studio benefitted from the removal of certain ground > loops! - and that strange tingling feeling when you brush against a > rack full of gear at slightly different ground potentials...) > > Anyway, on the other hand, I do feel that jitter (especially > synchronous jitter) is still a problem today. In the studio of course > most gear is wordclocked...which helps! > > But the bad effects of jitter are only actually realised during the > analogue conversion (until then, bits are just bits) so provided you > minimise it just before that point...
Your last point is not quite true nowdays, with ASRC and other asynchrounous digital domain processing going on. -- P Floding No, I didn't ABX it. And I won't even if you ask me. (Especially not if you ask me.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33146 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
