opaqueice;224882 Wrote: > eiret, jitter is determined by the characteristics of the digital source > and of the connection between the source and receiver. Its effect on > the sound (assuming the receiver is a DAC) is a function of the jitter > spectrum and the jitter rejection of the DAC. > > A rough analogy is static on the radio. How much static you hear is a > function of three things - the strength of the transmitter, the > location of your antenna, and the quality of your tuner. > > So what they mean here is that no matter how much jitter they introduce > in the signal the sound is unchanged, and therefore the DAC is immune to > jitter. It's like having a perfect tuner that never plays static no > matter how bad the signal gets. That would be hard to do with analogue > radio signals, but with digital data it's possible (up to the point > where the data itself gets corrupted).
I've been modding DAC's for many years, and I've probably modded 15 different ones. I found that none of them are immune to jitter, even though most have some claims of such. Steve N. Empirical Audio -- audioengr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ audioengr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8041 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37557 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
