-From my understanding jitter is a time based issue that occurs when the timing on the transmission side is unstable and the DAC uses this unstable timing as a basis for conversion.-
That is true. -I would presume the Squeezebox or XBMC in my case would read the FLAC file into a buffer and then send it via the digital output to the receiver where the DA conversion would take place. If this were the case as long as the buffer was never empty the wireless-ness of the transmission should not contribute to jitter in my opinion.- What you may have overlooked here is there will be jitter on the transmission interface to the DAC and it is this jitter (and this jitter only) that can cause audible degradation, depending on the DAC's jitter transfer function (i.e. how much jitter on the interface gets to the DAC clock). In the case of a Benchmark DAC1, it's none, for other DAC's it varies a lot, depending upon how well engineered they are in terms of the SPDIF interface, the receiver circuitry, the clock regeneration etc. Andy. -- Andrew L. Weekes _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
