At 6:49 AM -0700 7/4/08, Jim Lux wrote: >For your amusement... > >Sitting in a waiting room yesterday, I read an article in a >very-high-end audio magazine describing a $15K Rubidium frequency >standard for providing low jitter clocks to your audio system. It has >outputs at 44.1, 48, etc. kHz, as well as a 100kHz, which the person >writing said might become a new standard (huh?) > > > >A whole magazine, 100 pages long, filled with this sort of thing (and >yes, they had the special speaker cables with the arrows to indicate >preferred direction of power flow, too....) > >Jim
Jim, It does sound like a fine way to separate fools from their money, but imagine having to listen to your customers spout that nonsense all day long! I remember reading a 1991 audiophile magazine article about clock jitter in a CD player. They had separated the transport from the DAC and mounted the master timing oscillator in the transport. Then they spent a lot of money on a fiber link to send the clock to the DAC from the transport with low jitter, since the DAC requires low jitter and the oscillator was at the end of a cable, which are known, along with their transmitting/receiving circuitry, for introducing jitter. Not once did they contemplate putting the oscillator next to the DAC where you might say it rightfully belongs. -- --David Forbes, Tucson, AZ http://www.cathodecorner.com/ _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
