cliveb;372181 Wrote: > Quite so. People appear to be able to tell the difference between > identical bit streams from different transports passing through the > same DAC. And therefore many conclude that it has to be jitter, because > apart from the sample values the only other conceivable variable is the > timing of those samples. But this ignores that the act of listening to > a digital signal involves analogue circuitry at some point, which is > vulnerable to a variety of external influences (eg. noise on the power > lines, RFI, etc). I have a sneaking feeling that the audible > differences might be as much to do with how the analgue circuitry gets > messed up by the EMI characteristics of connected and/or nearby devices > as it is to do with jitter. > You seem to say there's no distortion in the synchronous digital domain, and that any differences (distortions) might only exist from their influence on the analog domain ? Is that what you say ?
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