opaqueice;603901 Wrote: > A $20 DVD player over a $2 cable will give you a digital stream that's > easily good enough to recover the bits with perfect accuracy. I know > that for a fact, because I've ripped hundreds of disks on a cheap > DVD-ROM drive, and all 6 billion bits or so came through correctly on > nearly all the unscratched ones. So unless your source or cable is > malfunctioning, there's no issue with bit accuracy. > > Therefore the only potential difference is clock recovery. The bits > arrive at certain times (variations in those times are called jitter), > and if you're interested in converting them into music played in real > time (rather than saving them to a hard disk), you have to base your > clock on them. But if the bit arrival times are jittery, that will > introduce distortion. > > So one way in which DACs differ is how they deal with that issue. The > Benchmark deals with it in a way that evidently renders it completely > immune to input jitter. You can find details on the algorithm they use > on the web if you're interested.
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