IIRC Melco own Buffalo!
Proper sampling clock timing is clearly explained here, item 2.That’s a fairly fundamental misunderstanding you’ve got there. Jitter can occur at any point. It tends to get measured at conversion for obvious ease and consistency but you can measure at other points and get similar outcomes.
You really should stock Innuos Keith. With your innate charm and perfect sales technique you are clearly missing out.Proper sampling clock timing is clearly explained here, item 2.
https://www.weiss.ch/assets/content/41/white-paper-on-computer-playback.pdf
A £2.5k switch, fantastic.
Keith
Who??Oran.
Difficult to fault your logic there.However good a job this thing does at reducing "network noise", it can't beat no network at all.
Also worth noting that all Innuos gear is wired connection only (I think).
That’s the next step isn’t it, an Audiophile Wi-Fi Router, trickier to do though as you can't really dumb down the tech enough to be zero touch/cables only.Not to knock Innuos or anyone else, but I suspect a lot of the reasoning for this is to avoid customer complaints due to badly set up home networks, plus the difficulty in designing motherboards that properly isolate the WiFi.
Not to knock Innuos or anyone else, but I suspect a lot of the reasoning for this is to avoid customer complaints due to badly set up home networks, plus the difficulty in designing motherboards that properly isolate the WiFi.
I think we're arguing semantics. Transmission jitter is any deviation from accurate periodicity, until the point of conversion it's timing error, at the point of conversion it becomes embedded as frequency error.
You're wrong Keith.
I don't have to look it up. I worked in BT where digital data was transmitted decades before digital audio came about. Timing issues (jitter) and data loss could happen for a number of reasons in the transmission of data and nothing to do with any data conversion or processing. Thankfully, we, as in BT, investigated and found out what caused these issues. The timing issues were rectified eventually, but BT lost a great deal of money over it, plus a huge investigation that took place, as well as significant amounts of time and money to sort it out.
If you use roon (via USB > DAC for example) a fancy switch can't offer anything as all data is buffered into RAM before playing.
If you are referring to accumulation of timing jitter in transmission systems, this occurred in the regenerators that were used then. A regenerator looks to detect the "1 or 0" status at each bit interval, and apply retiming. The latter relied on a clock-recovery circuit which was imperfect, and subject to the influence of the data pattern. (I used to work at BT too, for some years on both regenerated and later optically-amplified long-haul transmission systems.)
This is very different from transmission along a simple, passive USB cable! So I think your comments here are somewhat spurious. (Not getting at you specifically, but HIFI manufacturers, in particular vendors of expensive digital kit such as "HIFI" network storage devices, have a huge vested interest in overcomplicating and inventing problems that don't exist.)