Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-13 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.comwrote: I've alway have thought that if nanosecond level jitter is bad then breathing while listening must be really bad. If you inhale the path length from your ear to the speaker changes at the microsecond level.

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread MailLists
Ashihara's tests were with music/voice, taking into account psychoacoustics, for an average group of music savvy listeners, and even music professionals. As uncorrelated jitter is practically raising the noise floor, most of it was masked by the signal, making it more difficult to detect.

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread Heinzmann, Stefan (ALC NetworX GmbH)
MailLists wrote: Ashihara's tests were with music/voice, taking into account psychoacoustics, for an average group of music savvy listeners, and even music professionals. As uncorrelated jitter is practically raising the noise floor, most of it was masked by the signal, making it more

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread shalimr9
-boun...@febo.com Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 16:16:44 To: time-nuts@febo.com Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear Don't forget the human mind can compensate for a lot of things. Think of how we can

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread shalimr9
-nuts-boun...@febo.com Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 23:25:50 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurementtime-nuts@febo.com Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear On Thu, 10 May 2012 11:36:40 -0700

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread Henk
Hi, That jitter value, was that one period jitter? Or was it jitter over a large number of periods, thus close by the carrier? Henk MailLists wrote: Ashihara's tests were with music/voice, taking into account psychoacoustics, for an average group of music savvy listeners, and even music

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/11/12 12:48 AM, MailLists wrote: Who would listen to pure sine tones? As a youth, I listened to WWV, which is a pure sine tone, in between the ticks. Drove my parents batty. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread Stanley
- Original Message - From: Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 8:10 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear On 5/11/12 12:48 AM, MailLists wrote: Who would listen to pure sine tones? As a youth, I listened to WWV, which

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-11 Thread DaveH
...@febo.com] On Behalf Of shali...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 04:27 To: Time-Nuts Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear Breathing and heart beat are filtered out and corrected for by the brain, otherwise we would have difficulties to hear a lot of things. Interestingly

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 09 May 2012 14:25:34 -0700 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: Back to technical stuff... As a practical matter, is clock jitter or phase noise from a typical low cost crystal and decent board layout a significant problem in audio gear? How hard is it to measure? Depends

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread MailLists
Hearing tests showed the ability to discern jitter above a few hundred nanoseconds rms. http://amorgignitamorem.nl/Audio/Jitter/Detection%20threshold%20for%20distortions%20due%20to%20jitter%20on%20digital%20audio%2026_50.pdf Others claim the ability to detect jitter in the picoseconds range...

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 4fab74eb.1050...@medesign.ro, MailLists writes: Others claim the ability to detect jitter in the picoseconds range... It would be a conservative assumption that jitter in the range of tens-hundreds of picoseconds will be practically not discernible. We're probably talking about one

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Heinzmann, Stefan (ALC NetworX GmbH)
Hal Murray wrote: As a practical matter, is clock jitter or phase noise from a typical low cost crystal and decent board layout a significant problem in audio gear? How hard is it to measure? The answer depends a lot on the circumstances (as usual). If you refer to jitter effects on a

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Albertson
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:57 AM, MailLists li...@medesign.ro wrote: Hearing tests showed the ability to discern jitter above a few hundred nanoseconds rms. http://amorgignitamorem.nl/Audio/Jitter/Detection%20threshold%20for%20distortions%20due%20to%20jitter%20on%20digital%20audio%2026_50.pdf

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread J. Forster
In fact, I do believe the paper is a voice of rationality in an ocean oh hype. Very expensive hype, promoted by shameless hucksters. -John === On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:57 AM, MailLists li...@medesign.ro wrote: Hearing tests showed the ability to discern jitter above a few hundred

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Heinzmann, Stefan (ALC NetworX GmbH)
Chris Albertson wrote: If we are to believe the above paper,then those guys who claim to hear pS jitter are wrong. Note that the jitter spectrum matters for its audibility. Ashihara et.al. used random jitter, and it is not very suprising that the sensitivity for random jitter is lower than

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Albertson
I've alway have thought that if nanosecond level jitter is bad then breathing while listening must be really bad. If you inhale the path length from your ear to the speaker changes at the microsecond level. You'd think the resulting doppler shift would drive these audiophiles nuts. All that

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Tom Knox
09:48:21 -0700 To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:57 AM, MailLists li...@medesign.ro wrote: Hearing tests showed the ability to discern jitter above a few hundred nanoseconds rms. http://amorgignitamorem.nl/Audio/Jitter

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Hal Murray
albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: I've alway have thought that if nanosecond level jitter is bad then breathing while listening must be really bad. If you inhale the path length from your ear to the speaker changes at the microsecond level. You'd think the resulting doppler shift would drive

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Dan Kemppainen
One interesting note however. Years ago we had a standard old 4040 ripple counter in our shop that displayed a low occurrence of jitter of several times it's input frequency period at it's lowest frequency output (Sort of what you are describing below). I wish I had the numbers handy, but the

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/10/12 11:36 AM, Hal Murray wrote: albertson.ch...@gmail.com said: I've alway have thought that if nanosecond level jitter is bad then breathing while listening must be really bad. If you inhale the path length from your ear to the speaker changes at the microsecond level. You'd think

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Jim Lux
On 5/10/12 12:44 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Heinzmann, Stefan (ALC NetworX GmbH)stefan.heinzm...@alcnetworx.de wrote: Benjamin and Gannon, the first reference in Ashihara's paper, come to lower figures for sinusoidal jitter with carefully selected

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Dan Kemppainen
Don't forget the human mind can compensate for a lot of things. Think of how we can triangulate a sound source in realtime even with the included echos in a small room. The only thing that I can think of that messes with that system is a single tone setting up standing waves. It's impressive

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Albertson
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net wrote: On 5/10/12 12:44 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: powerline ripple on a signal going into a threshold detector that drive the sample clock would be a nice way to generate sinusoidal jitter. I can think of other ways to design a

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Hal Murray
Are there any real audio systems with sinusoidal jitter. I'd goes that it would all be random. I can see where I could build a system with that defect if I wanted to but are there any systems on the market like this? I could easily imagine jitter with a significant sinusoidal

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Hal Murray
d...@irtelemetrics.com said: One interesting note however. Years ago we had a standard old 4040 ripple counter in our shop that displayed a low occurrence of jitter of several times it's input frequency period at it's lowest frequency output (Sort of what you are describing below). I wish

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Thu, 10 May 2012 19:25:33 +0200 Heinzmann, Stefan (ALC NetworX GmbH) stefan.heinzm...@alcnetworx.de wrote: Benjamin and Gannon, the first reference in Ashihara's paper, come to lower figures for sinusoidal jitter with carefully selected frequencies relative to the main signal, which is

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Attila Kinali
On Thu, 10 May 2012 11:36:40 -0700 Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: Heartbeats may be more interesting than breathing. Does anybody know of spectrum domain data? It should be possible to collect position info while also monitoring heartbeat and chest diameter and then crunch some

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-10 Thread Tom Van Baak
This audio thread had some interesting information; thank you. Now I welcome you to get back to the focus of the group; please. Thanks, /tvb p.s. If we need to start another mailing list that includes audio let me know; contact me off-line. ___

[time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-09 Thread Hal Murray
was Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Faster than light of a different type (Probably my fault.) act...@hotmail.com said: What I found funny was that the Audiophlie and light thread drew such attacks when it hit home to me as exactly what the Time-Nuts mission is about. The Audio thread touched on

Re: [time-nuts] Clocks for Audio gear

2012-05-09 Thread Azelio Boriani
You can refer to this for a relation between SFDR and INL: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee247/fa07/files07/lectures/L14_f07.pdf On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: was Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Faster than light of a different type (Probably my