My theory is that with a large buffer you have lots of processing happening all at once at fairly infrequent intervals. With a small buffer you have much less processing but closer together, the processing is more spread out.
If you look at power supply noise with a spectgrum analyzer you will see the large buffer case has strong low frequency components, where the small buffer case does not. Its MUCH harder to filter out the strong low frequency components (which are right smack dab in the audio range) than it is the higher frequenccy components from the small buffer. Those low frequency components are then going to modulate the oscillators, reclockers and everything else giving rise to low frequency jitter which seems to affect sound more than the high frequency jitter. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84742 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
