martintyler Wrote: > I dont disagree at all. You obviously misunderstood my point.
You are likely correct in this since it was unclear to me what you were trying to say (except that you were apparently disagreeing with the previous point). martintyler Wrote: > but reproducing a perfect stream of bits correctly has nothing to do > with jitter. I think we're basically in agreement here...but your statement calls for some clarification. There are really 2 "streams of bits" that we're discussing. The recreation of a "perfect stream of bits" inside of the computer indeed has nothing to do with the jitter we're speaking of. The jitter we're discussing only exists in the creation and interpretation of the spdif signal (the computer, as the source device in this case, can only be held responsible for the creation of the signal). At some point the computer must generate a spdif signal based on the audio data it knows. It knows the actual bits and it knows what timing to use to send those bits. Using that information, the spdif signal is created by some output device (sound card, squeezebox, etc.) and at this point "reproducing a perfect stream of bits correctly" has *everything* to do with jitter. The "perfect" signal would contain all correct bits, be perfectly timed, and all edge transitions would be vertical. Getting the correct bits down is trivial, but neither perfect timing nor vertical edge transitions is possible. -- azinck3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24957 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
