Computer Audio Asylum

Posted by Jaundiced Ear (A) on August 20, 2014 at 11:25:35

In Reply to: RE: Thanks for the link posted by Ryelands on August 20, 2014 at 10:35:26

Hey, feel free to ignore my posts. My nick is pretty distinctive so it should be no surprise to you if you click on something I've posted.

With regard to JS's articles, my complaint is that he never ties his theories to reality. For example, there is a lot of hand waving about jitter. At one point he says: "The spectrum of this noise and jitter has a VERY strong component at either 1KHz or 8KHz, both of which are directly in the audio range." I'm not saying this is untrue, but I am asking just how much jitter and noise are we talking about here? Is this something to worry about or can it be ignored? JS never tells us. "VERY strong" is not data. "VERY strong" is a value judgment. Why am I a bad guy for wanting to see some data so I can make my own value judgment? How is asking for some data "lecturing the rest of us on how dumb we are?" Read the comments to JS's articles. I'm not the only one who was dissatisfied with them. I'll happily concede that JS's articles raise interesting engineering questions. What I want to know is whether or to what extent those questions have been answered by current technology. Oddly enough, whenever I read a review of a current component that includes a jitter and noise measurement, the jitter and noise levels always seem to be vanishingly low. Where are these lions and tigers and bears I'm supposed to worry about? Has current engineering extirpated them?

If the interior of my PC is the blasted moonscape JS and others on this forum seem to think it is, how come beautiful music comes out of it when I turn it on? For that matter, why does it even turn on?

What's your idea of a "more positive contribution?" Sucking up to the inmates who post tales of magical SATA cables or $60 a piece thimbles? Perhaps my skepticism is a positive contribution to this forum. No one should get too complacent. People should be ready to defend their positions. Lord knows I've done enough of that since I started posting here.

JE