Phil Leigh wrote: > With all this hypothesising about clock degradation, jitter etc making > digital transports "sound" different - why can't we really prove this?
What, apply science and engineering to audiophollio? I personally don't believe most of this jitter stuff. At least I don't see that minor/small amounts matter. > What would it take to progressively introduce noise or other spuriae > onto a SPDIF connection and see (or rather listen to) what happens? > > What happens if we slap an RC network across a SPDIF, thus messing up > the clock waveform recovery ? I don't think your RCL network will work, but one could do a controlled sample by feeding the SPDIF in, and having a micro-controller drive a random number generator to delay or speed up the edges. Just adding a constant delay should make no difference. Note I say "should" rather than "does". This opens up more bags-o-worms, are some DACs more susceptible to delay and others to leads? What distribution of timing delays are important? What is important? (see my measurement thread, or threadlette.) > What happens if we hit a toslink with a big hammer? I expect that on this, it is digital, it works or fails. > Is it possible to devise controlled tests for these scenarios? Of course, and for less than the cost of a Super Conducting Super Collider. But who would want to know? who would pay? _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
