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post #31 of 34
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Originally Posted by rogerlike View Post
Studies have shown that we can quite easily hear clock jitter (there are lots of ways jitter can be introduced) down to 500-1000ps (0.5-1ns). Some new studies suggest levels down to even 10-20ps may be audible.
Please can you provide citations for these studies, especially the new one you allude to.

If you are talking about the Dunn or Hawksford papers these were mathemetical models never empirically tested with actual listeners.

There is no published paper anywhere, to the best of my knowledge , that has **shown** jitter to be audible below 250ns (Ashihara et al 2005) for random jitter or 10ns (Benjamin and Gannon 1998) for signal-correlated jitter, at any frequency.

If there are other studies that challenge this I will be happy to read them.

Cheers

Nick
post #32 of 34
Do some searches, this has been discussed ad nauseam. Most of the folks on both sides of the fence have become sick of the argument, so you will get a better overview if you read through older threads.
post #33 of 34
This thread might be of interest, particularly Francis Vaughn's posts (#12 in particular). The bit integrity of the data portion of SPDIF/toslink is probably not a problem. The embedded clock, at 2.8MHz, is another story.
post #34 of 34
Try to find a used Millersound digital coax. Clean, quiet, detailed and very natural sounding; the best I've tried, and the one digital cable I still own/employ. : )
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