cliveb;439679 Wrote: > All of this effort to reduce jitter to a minimum seems to ignore the > discoveries that were made years ago by Benjamin and Gannon in a > properly conducted test which concluded that on music signals, jitter > below about 10nS (that's 10000pS) has no audible effect. Granted they > were using uncorrelated jitter, but come on, this is *orders of > magnitude* worse than the jitter levels that come out of typical > consumer gear. > > My personal feeling is that the reason we sometimes notice differences > between transports is nothing to do with jitter, but down to the effects > that the different EMI signatures and/or grounding arrangements those > transports have on downstream analogue circuitry (eg. in the DAC, > preamp, etc).
Fair point, perhaps we should concentrate more on galvanic isolation, shielding etc? -- 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 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65422 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
