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

From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>
Date: Fri May 28 2010 - 22:13:42 EEST

Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Veronica Merryfield wrote:
>> Just thinking about what I had wrote and remembered the semantics
>> used here...
>>
>>
>>> One more hint: card X is a very high end one. It should
>>> be 'perfect', or at least much better than card A.
>>>
>>
>> ... which might suggest that Card X is not performing well. Since it
>> has been stated the card x is not USB, it is possible that this card
>> has it's audio clock derived from the PC clock which is likely
>> dithered - they call it spread spectrum to help reduce radiated noise
>> in testing.
>>
>
> http://www.maxim-ic.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/3503
>
> And how would this cause the issue?

Ok this would cause jitter because of the slew rate? But is there a
distance of (around or exactly) 100 Hz? Will the card itself split the
clock from 1000 Hz to 100 Hz? I guess the standard clock by RT kernels
will be 1000 Hz. Right?
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