Golden Earring wrote: > Hi all. > > I know that Sean worked hard in 2005 to keep the jitter on the > Transporter to a minimum, but if you think he thought 20ps was > sufficiently low to be inaudible you might ask why he then also gave the > Transporter a word clock in connection. >
So you can't think of any purpose for an external word clock connection except to reduce jitter? OK. Here's a little studio craft for you. In a situation where there are a lot of devices with their own clocks, the slight differences between those clocks can cause audible problems, and clocking them all from a common source can make those problems go away. For example, if you are recording multiple channels from various sources, having all those sources use the same identical clock means that their clock frequencies are identically the same, and they then stay in synch. Simply having multiple clocks with slightly different frequencies can lead to them inadvertently mixing and forming beats and spurious tones and whistles. and so on. It is the same kind of bogus argument that speaker systems with separate woofer and tweeter connections were "obviously designed" for biwiring. In fact they are often set up that way to facilitate active biamping which can actually make a difference, unlike biwiring which is pure snake oil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
