Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-09 Thread J.D. Bakker
Finding actual plots of the effect of clock jitter on effective DAC SNR etc is somewhat problematic however the attached plot from http://www.electronicproducts.com/ShowPage.asp?Filename=tech-update.jul2007.html illustrates the clock jitter sensitivity of some sigma delta DAC designs. There's a

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-09 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I have paid my dues in the HiFi world, but I have always insisted that there be a solid scientific basis for any product I bought. When faced with claims that picosecond jitter can be perceived by

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-09 Thread Greg Burnett
] To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I have paid my dues in the HiFi world, but I have always insisted that there be a solid scientific basis for any

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-09 Thread Henk ten Pierick
- From: Dr. David Kirkby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I have paid my dues in the HiFi world, but I have always

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-09 Thread Bruce Griffiths
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY J.D. Bakker wrote: Finding actual plots of the effect of clock jitter on effective DAC SNR etc is somewhat problematic however the attached plot from

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-08 Thread David McGaw
As one who has worked in the pro digital audio field for years, I can tell you that sub-100 ps jitter very definitely can be heard, depending on its spectrum. Modern sigma-delta ADCs and DACs use oversampling clocks of 12 to 50 MHz for sample rates of 44.1 kHz to 192 kHz at 24-bit resolution

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-08 Thread Henk ten Pierick
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY On Oct 8, 2007, at 20:04, David McGaw wrote: ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY As one who has worked in the pro digital audio field for years, I can tell you that sub-100 ps jitter

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-08 Thread Tom Van Baak
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY As one who has worked in the pro digital audio field for years, I can tell you that sub-100 ps jitter very definitely can be heard, depending on its spectrum. Modern sigma-delta ADCs and DACs use oversampling clocks of

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Van Baak writes: It's also interesting when two list members disagree by so many tens of dB, so I'm hoping David and PHK can settle this for us. I doubt it, at the end of the day, much of

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-08 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Tom Van Baak wrote: As one who has worked in the pro digital audio field for years, I can tell you that sub-100 ps jitter very definitely can be heard, depending on its spectrum. Modern sigma-delta ADCs and DACs use oversampling clocks of 12 to 50 MHz for sample rates of 44.1 kHz to 192

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-08 Thread Magnus Danielson
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY From: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:02:24 + Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-08 Thread Bill Hawkins
reply. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Griffiths Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 4:10 PM To: Tom Van Baak; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD ); SAEximRunCond

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-08 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Bill Hawkins wrote: Bruce, You have been more precise than this in other posts. Can you put some numbers behind the sigma delta DAC's sensitivity to jitter? Twenty years ago, the process control community got all jittery about the jitter in the execution period of function blocks. The

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-06 Thread Henk ten Pierick
On Oct 6, 2007, at 3:01, Magnus Danielson wrote: If the sample rate is 44.1 kHz then the adev below 1 s, even down to 10 us, or jitter, or the phase noise above 1 kHz are they key parameters; not long-term drift. In this case I'd take a nice 10811A over a typical Rb any day. Does anyone

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Pawlan
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY You are not off base. I know the inventor of the high definition CD standard and he has the patents on the mastering system. He had made for his company a special piece of test equipment to measure picosecond jitter. I

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY I have paid my dues in the HiFi world, but I have always insisted that there be a solid scientific basis for any product I bought. When faced with claims that picosecond jitter can be perceived by the human ear, my

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-06 Thread Henk ten Pierick
On Oct 6, 2007, at 18:48, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: When faced with claims that picosecond jitter can be perceived by the human ear, my flim-flam-o-meter blows a fuse. A 1 nsec phasemodulation of a 44100 kHz clock signal will, worst case, come out to an noise component 87 dB below the

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Pawlan
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY You are way incorrect in your reply. Since this is off-topic I will limit my reply to a few salient points. High definition CD is not at 44.1KHz It is much higher so your ratio is off. The A/D and D/A converters they use are

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-06 Thread Thomas A . Frank
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY If the sample rate is 44.1 kHz then the adev below 1 s, even down to 10 us, or jitter, or the phase noise above 1 kHz are they key parameters; not long-term drift. In this case I'd take a nice 10811A over a typical Rb any

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-05 Thread Tom Van Baak
); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY OK, not really a time related post...except for the clock in the CD player...which begs the question, any time nuts play with creating a more precise CD player using a precision oscillator? Think it would make a

Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD

2007-10-05 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Tom Van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] from Sputnik to CD Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:46:46 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom, (or is that Tom-Tom?) OK, not really a time related post...except for the clock in the CD player...which begs the question, any time nuts