[time-nuts] Oh dear
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon May 7 17:56:14 UTC 2012
In message <D2251F0F290D4B1AB54E1A4DBA34500E at vectron.com>, "Bob Camp" writes:
>If you extend the bandwidth down low enough (as in low audio) the jitter
>goes up quite a bit. In the case of audio, jitter at low frequencies just
>might be something to worry about.
Not with the kind of physical laws I live in.
At low audio frequencies, say 100 Hz, you have at least 441 samples
per period of audio, and the Y-difference from one sample to the
next is so small, that no amount of jitter will have sonic impact.
At a 20 kHz frequency however, you have sign reversal from sample
to sample and moving a sample in X has very high impact on the
energy of that and the surrounding samples.
This is exactly why we use oversampling in the first place: You
get more gentle slopes from sample to sample which means that
the jitters effect is attenuated in the result.
The place where this audio-jitter-homoepathy comes from, is the
first generation of Philips CD players, CD-100 etc, which had
"jitter" come up from the poor mechanics, because there were
insufficient buffering before the de-interleaver.
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