Themis;344651 Wrote: > I don't see why it should be this way. It's just an assumption. You seem > to believe that only the clock generates jitter, which is not true.. > Any synchronous component generates jitter, even simple cables. So, I > don't see why the internals of SB/TP should generate less jitter than > the cable+dac. Is it the number of components involved that matters ?
I'm pretty sure there are measurements of this for the SB3 somewhere, so we don't need to speculate. But I'd be willing to bet just about anything it's true. When you connect something with (say) a coax cable, there's lots of complex stuff happening in the cable that will blur the edges of the signal: reflections, complex impedance effects, etc. The longer the cable and the more connectors there are, the worse it is. Inside the SB3, the DAC chip, clock, and data buffer are connected via very short circuit board traces. Moreover it may use a superior format to S/PDIF for internal data transmission (something that separates the clock from the data, for example). I want to make clear that I am very skeptical whether any of this is severe enough to cause any audible problems, but it's fun playing devil's advocate :-). -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52817 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
