And just what was the exact nature of the "artificially introduced jitter"? Very important to know. Not just magnitude, but spectral distribution and degree (if any) of data-correlation. Hard to know if it should have made a significant difference without any of that data.
Sure, if you hear a significant difference between the SPDIF source and the source through an outboard DAC, there could very well be other factors at work. In fact, there probably are. But you then take steps to reduce the recovered clock jitter, and see what happens. Yes, I know, the average person can not do that. Those of us in industry can. And we have done so, specifically because we heard these differences. We all had to address them (or fail in the market place), and that is how we came to understand how jitter affected things. Again, no one that I know would have gone to any great length to investigate and address the issue if it was a moot point. There are lots of other bogus stories one could invent, all probably equally plausible, to come up with hype to flog their wares. Pat -- ar-t http://www.analogresearch-technology.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ar-t's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13619 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56425 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
