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| What does Jitter sound like? Shadorne - how do you think the data coming off the disk is stored in a buffer in the CD player without a PLL?BTW, I am an EE. I was a design team lead on the Pentium II at Intel Corp. 30 years design experience designing everything from big disk ... | |
| What does Jitter sound like? Brownsfan - As I have said in other posts, it is the PRIMARY deficiency that makes Digital Audio fatigueing, and is the single most significant flaw in the S/PDIF and CD format.Steve N. | |
| What does Jitter sound like? "My point was that there is no jitter added or lost by copying CD-R's many times (provided everything remains in the digital domain). The same is true for digital processing - it adds no jitter. ONLY a jittery clock or jittery signal makes jitter.... | |
| What does Jitter sound like? Dgarretson - Wow and flutter exhibit the same results as jitter, frequency modulation, so the answer is yes, although some jitter occurs at rates and changes in ways that a turntable could not physically do.Steve N. | |
| What does Jitter sound like? Bigamp - Sooner or later the folks that dont understand the jitter thing will hear it or they will eventually upgrade their systems to the point where they hear it. Until then, it is like trying to explain how the earth looks from space.Jitter is ... | |
| What does Jitter sound like? Shadorne - you are missing the point. It is not the data in the copy that is different, as explained in the paper you cite. It is the jitter DURING real-time playback that is different. This is the distinction.Steve N. | |
| What does Jitter sound like? Shadorne - the positions of the pits in the CD are a form of timing information that can cause jitter as they are read. How this affects the PLL/buffering in the CD player depends on the design of the CD player. It is evidently important though. R... | |
| Sonos Questions It's silly to try to improve the Sonos without addressing the real deficiency, and that is the jitter. Either upgrade the internal clock and S/PDIF output circuit or put it through a reclocker.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| What does Jitter sound like? It is like looking through a window that is fogged-up. HF noise mostly riding on the music. The spectrum and amplitude have a large effect on audibility, as does the system. If the system has a lot of sibilance from other sources, then it may be m... | |
| Apple Lossless Encoder - Audiophile Quality? Disk is cheap. Why compress 50%? Many of my customers have told me that AL and even FLAC changes the sound. Besides, you have a "true master" if it .wav and you can convert to anything you want later.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Apple TV vs. Mini vs, Sonos Use an iPod touch to control a laptop with iTunes driving out USB to a USB converter or USB DAC. You can not only do web radio and iTunes downloads, you can do 24/96 hi-res.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Computer music server PC or Apple???? Rbstehno - You dont understand. What I am saying is that the USB firmware that Empirical and Benchmark uses needs to have 24/44.1 streamed over the USB cable rather than 16/44.1. Has nothing to do with 24-bit DAC's. This has to do with how Windows... | |
| Music Servers VS Excellent Transports? Dcstep - no, like CES, THE Show is really for dealers and press. However, if you email me, I can still get you a badge for THE Show under my company name. No problem.Steve N. | |
| Music Servers VS Excellent Transports? Dcstep - dont forget THE Show at the Alexis Park and St. Tropez. Lots of good sounds from high-end exhibitors there, no elevators, free lunch, free entertainment, and most exhibits on the first floors. Shuttles from the Convention Center and next ... | |
| Music Servers VS Excellent Transports? Davemitchell - I agree about SACD. There is something "overblown" about the sound. Ultradynamic. Difficult to get a "live" synphony to sound live. I have heard CD tracks sound much better.Steve N. |