On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 01:15:15 +0000, Ian Molton wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:37:43 GMT
(pmailkeey) wrote:

I'll not ask what jitter is, but I guess it can't be good

its 'noise' in the tioming of the digital pulses, ie. they arrive slightly earlier or later than they should.

jitter should be *irrelevant* on any well designed system. Even quite large amounts of it.

At the point of conversion, it's absolutely critical. That's the main
problem with standalone DACs for CD.
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