PasTim;656522 Wrote: > I'm sure it's my fault for being a bit thick or ignorant, or both :) > > I will say, however, that the whole topic of digital audio transmission > is massively confusing, with so many contradictory statements being made > (often extremely forcefully, to put it mildly), that it can be no real > surprise that a rank amateur like myself gets totally baffled. I > suspect that part of my problem is that I am remain completely > astonished that the reliable transfer of bits from one place to another > appears to cause so much dispute in the audio world. The idea that some > noise may be carried at the same time ought to be irrelevant provided > the bits are all present and correct, but that's clearly not so. > > I'm not asking for an explanation, since I almost certainly wouldn't > understand it. I'm just hinting that some of us are interested in > trying to get the best from our systems, without really grasping the > underlying technical issues, and it's all too easy to misunderstand > what people are saying.
The noise we are talking about doesn't change the bits, which is just as well or computers would be uselessly unpredictable! But unlike a computer, spdif has a clock mixed in with the bits and the noise CAN interfere with the certainty of the start/end of the clock pulses -hence jitter. This translates to distortion in th DAC if not handled well by the DAC. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 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
