08-Dec-2015, 15:39
My 2c on the effect of jitter on the optical inputs, because I just can't resist:
Old CD players generated their clock from the disc data itself. So, if the master was recorded with jitter, jitter had an effect on reproduced signal on the player as well.
Today most devices are "reclocking" input signals, that means they use an internal master clock to drive the DAC, so there's no jitter correlated to the jitter of the input signal anymore. So yes, for modern devices, bits are bits!
So many generalisations in those two sentences that anybody could find a proper reason to disagree.... Oh well
Old CD players generated their clock from the disc data itself. So, if the master was recorded with jitter, jitter had an effect on reproduced signal on the player as well.
Today most devices are "reclocking" input signals, that means they use an internal master clock to drive the DAC, so there's no jitter correlated to the jitter of the input signal anymore. So yes, for modern devices, bits are bits!
So many generalisations in those two sentences that anybody could find a proper reason to disagree.... Oh well
