I'm a hobby hi-fi do-it-yourself'er and big into 'perfecting' my sound system and tinkering with electronics in general. One of the big concerns with digital audio of any source is of course jitter. Most purists would say that the digital out from a PC soundcard is absolutely horrendous and totally unfit for hi-fi due to this. My question is if anyone knows realistically what can be expected with your typical or not-so-typical digital-out cards: sb live, ensoniq audio pci, c-media 8738, etc. The reason I'm posting this on the ALSA list is I'm wondering if the drivers have any influence on the quality (ie. timing) of the digital out. I assume that the soundcard clocks out the SP/DIF data at a specified rate regardless of what gets sent to the DSP. But is there a reason for concern that latency induced by the software / OS could cause something of a buffer underrun between the DSP and SP/DIF transmitter and thereby massive jitter? If anybody has advice on this whole issue, they'd be greatly appreciated as well. Thanks
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