Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 05:37:47PM +0200, fons@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:30:54AM -0700, Niels Mayer wrote:
>
> > Audio ADCs and DACs have three important inputs;
> > the signal input, the voltage reference, and the clock.
> > Noise and interference on the voltage reference causes
> > amplitude modulation, and jitter on the clock causes
> > phase modulation. The resulting modulation products
> > look very similar in the frequency domain. One of the
> > authors once spent several days trying to track down a
> > low-frequency jitter problem, only to find that it was
> > in fact a problem of LF noise on the voltage reference.
>
> You're close. See the extra hint in a previous post.

is that an USB card ?
there is a "small" peak at 1000Hz which looks like a usb power drain at
isochronous packet frequency.

maybe its the packets voltage lifting the local ground a bit.

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