Dear hackers!
I have noticed that the slim box uses Micronas MAS3539F chip with and clock of 18.432M. I would if an replacement of this clock will reduce jitter and improve performance to give a truly audiophile results?
Crystal oscillators, by their nature, have very low phase noise, but they can have frequency errors and long term drift that, depending on the application, sometimes has to be corrected. This is well known to any electronic engineer.
So it seems to me that the D/A jitter caused by crystal oscillator phase noise is going to be completely undetectable by the human ear unless, perhaps, the oscillator is quite defective. The small errors in frequency could accumulate over time to cause buffer overrun or underrun on live streams, but short term jitter, as in audible frequency modulation distortion of a signal? I *seriously* doubt it.
Have you conducted any properly controlled (e.g., ABX) tests to see if you can really detect a given amount of jitter? Maybe you just *think* you can...
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