cliveb;197367 Wrote: > OK, you sound like someone who's not interested in doing any mods if > they don't make an audible improvement. So before you expend a great > deal of effort to reduce the jitter of the SB3's digital output, you > need to verify that whatever levels of jitter are already present are > indeed audible. > > There have been a number of well-conducted blind listening tests that > seem to suggest that the effects of jitter do not become audible until > the jitter is very high. For example, Benjamin & Gannon's AES paper > (preprint 4826) "Theoretical and Audible Effects of Jitter on Digital > Audio Quality" concluded that jitter becomes audible at about 10 ns for > a 20kHz frequency, and about 100 ns at 4kHz. They found that jitter > below 20 ns was undetectable on any music material they tried. 20 ns is > massively greater than the jitter levels of the SB3. Food for thought.
Thanks for that info. I will do mods, but I don't want to do them just for the sake of it or just because they are cheap. I'd like a little bit of evidence. -- mswlogo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mswlogo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9090 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34749 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
