gdg;232284 Wrote: > Apparently Toslink does in fact introduce jitter. I have this from at > least two audio engineers that have no reason to mislead me on this. > However, if you reclock to bring the jitter down to minimal levels (as > I do with a Big Ben) you can then take advantage of the fact that > Toslink isolates the processor from upstream noise.
All connections potentially introduce jitter. Coax also introduces galvanic coupling and rfi, as you say. Toslink-induced jitter artifacts appear to be very high frequency and uncorrelated. They can thus be dealt with by a variety of means such as reclocking, jitter scrambling etc. Optical connections (of various sorts) are frequently found in professional applications and are not always re-clocked. Many of the CD's you own will contain music that has passed through one or more optical digital connections. A DBT listening test of coax v optical is more informative than a bunch of theories. Different systems will produce different results. In many systems there is no audible difference between the two. In some systems, toslink+reclocking sounds better than coax. I happen to use coax+reclocking because my reclocking device has no toslink input. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... ...SB3+TACT+Altmann+MF DACXV3/Linn tri-amped Aktiv 5.1 system and some very expensive cables ;o) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38188 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
