Ralph, a more pertinent set of questions would be: a). how much jitter is required to actually cause an audible difference? b). what types of (non-broken) connection can causes that amount of jitter?
The answers to these questions are: a). Surprisingly high. Two well-known properly conducted trials are: Benjamin & Gannon. Theoretical and audible effects of jitter on digital audio quality. 105th AES Convention, 1998 Jitter added to digital signal between transport and DAC with a hardware device. Conclusions: uncorrelated jitter inaudible below 10nS rms on pure tones; uncorrelated jitter inaudible below 20nS rms on music signal Ashihara, Kiryu et al. Detection threshold for distortions due to jitter on digital audio. Acoust. Sci. & Tech. 26, 1 (2005) Jitter simulated in the digital domain. Conclusions: uncorrelated jitter inaudible below 250nS on music signal. b). None. So in summary, you don't need to worry about what connection type you use as far as jitter is concerned. Or rather, you don't need to worry about jitter at all. It's not the bogeyman that the audiophile community like to think it is. arnyk wrote: > The question also falsifies a recent post by the same poster claiming > that tagging files always audibly hinders their sound quality. I know you have a sense of humour, Arny, so I'm surprised that Ralph's earlier joke post seems to have gone over your head. Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104340 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
