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- From: mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel)
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- Subject: Re: How can different digital cables sound different?
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 23:11:41 GMT
- Organization: Institute For Nonlinear Science, UCSD
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- igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
- : More importantly, there is no clock. The clock for the DAC is recovered
- : from the SPDIF datastream. Jitter in that link will cause on the time
- : axis the same problems as quantisation errors on the voltage axis: a
- : source of error between the sampled and the reconstructed waveforms.
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- "recovered" how? I suspect strongly that any circuitry is going to
- effectively low-pass the "jitter" in the clock base out of audibility.
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- : ian
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