Asynchronous I2S FIFO project, an ultimate weapon to fight the jitter

[qusp]

well its not that far off at 4.17µVrms 100khz bandwidth and whether the trident maintains that same performance at 200mA in reality would be interesting. so I think your scoffing at the idea of an IC being a discrete regulator is a bit unfounded. also 2.9µVrms is hardly world beating as discrete regs go though.

its a nice small discrete reg, but ICs are catching up, certainly its got wider capability in voltage and current

[andrea_mori]

Originally Posted by makumba1966

Even with TPA, it seems to me, that XO dual board had a little better timbre.

Not a big surprise for me.
Subjective impressions remain subjective, while technical specs are objective.
Please, compare the phase noise from their datasheet between the CCHD-957 (not more than a standard XO from the shelf) and the Si570. In these datasheets you can find the explanation of your impression.
Typically (not from me, but in most literature from the guru in this matter), higher phase noise decreases the dynamic range, and so our ears feel the sound less natural, mostly in the midrange frequency.
Low Q oscillators with PLL usually perform worst than oscillator with higher Q without any PLL in digital to analog conversion.

[makumba1966]

Originally Posted by andrea_mori

Not a big surprise for me.
Subjective impressions remain subjective, while technical specs are objective.
Please, compare the phase noise from their datasheet between the CCHD-957 (not more than a standard XO from the shelf) and the Si570. In these datasheets you can find the explanation of your impression.
Typically (not from me, but in most literature from the guru in this matter), higher phase noise decreases the dynamic range, and so our ears feel the sound less natural, mostly in the midrange frequency.
Low Q oscillators with PLL usually perform worst than oscillator with higher Q without any PLL in digital to analog conversion.

I'm not sure if this is the main reason. IMO Si board need several hours more break-in to perform a meaningful comparison. With TPA board it sounds very nice to me, and I do not have any preasure back to CCHD

[qusp]

andrea loves to beat incessantly on the si570. believes he can distinguish differences in jitter down into the femto seconds

[andrea_mori]

jeremy loves to beat incessantly on subjective impression forgetting technical specs
we have different point of view, the technical point of view with objective measurement (the old thought school) and the subjective point of view without any demonstration (the new and creative thought school)
Hint of the day: there are thousands of documents on the internet explaining how phase noise, or if you prefere jitter, affects the sound in digital to analog conversion

There is not femto seconds difference from the 2 oscillators: from the Si5770 datasheet -112dBc@100Hz is a BAD performance, also if was measured at 120MHz frequency. Theorically you can subtract 6dB for each division by 2, pratically the phase noise remains the same (you can understand the reason in the thousands of documents on the internet, just read a bit)

[MisterRogers]

subjectively, this has been very interesting. I switched from the Dual Clock board (Isolator, S11 powering DAC & clock board, with TPA inline for dual clock board). to the Si570, TPA powered. Initial impression was slightly less timbre, but more smoothness/analog sounding (something I attributed to the higher clock speeds). Listened for a day and it sounded good; better as the day went on. Switched back this morning to the dual block board (CCHD-957's by the way), and a slight increase in Timbre (missed), but... I think overall the Si570 might be the winner. More listening to come....

Ian - a heartfelt thanks for your time/effort that allows us audio/diy geeks to play on this level. You've allowed me to entertain the absurd pursuit of the minutia. :-)

[glt]

Originally Posted by roender

This is not a surprise given the noise of trident regulator: 2.9uVrms, 100Kh bandwidth
The output impedance is almost the same as TPS7A4700 regulator.
I suppose no one imagine an integrated regulator will beat a well designed and implemented discrete regulator :-)

Is that value a measurement or simulation?

[iancanada]

Originally Posted by MisterRogers

subjectively, this has been very interesting. I switched from the Dual Clock board (Isolator, S11 powering DAC & clock board, with TPA inline for dual clock board). to the Si570, TPA powered. Initial impression was slightly less timbre, but more smoothness/analog sounding (something I attributed to the higher clock speeds). Listened for a day and it sounded good; better as the day went on. Switched back this morning to the dual block board (CCHD-957's by the way), and a slight increase in Timbre (missed), but... I think overall the Si570 might be the winner. More listening to come....

Ian - a heartfelt thanks for your time/effort that allows us audio/diy geeks to play on this level. You've allowed me to entertain the absurd pursuit of the minutia. :-)

You welcome MisterRogers. Mine is similar to you.

I have a couple of reg boards for my Si570, even same board with different capacitors, as well as 3.2V battery cell. I always can't decide which one is I want . That's why I designed a socket for external reg board. Every small change could be heard a this level.

Have a nice weekend.

Ian

[makumba1966]

After several hours of listening i decided that Si board with TPA trident sounds too "technical" to me and back to TPS. I'll wait some days now for burn-in before comparing with dual xo and other regs.

[regal]

Originally Posted by iancanada

You welcome MisterRogers. Mine is similar to you.

I have a couple of reg boards for my Si570, even same board with different capacitors, as well as 3.2V battery cell. I always can't decide which one is I want . That's why I designed a socket for external reg board. Every small change could be heard a this level.

Have a nice weekend.

Ian

Originally Posted by makumba1966

After several hours of listening i decided that Si board with TPA trident sounds too "technical" to me and back to TPS. I'll wait some days now for burn-in before comparing with dual xo and other regs.

either permutation is so superior to anything our ears have ever heard with regard to jitter performance it just amazes me that you are hearing differences. I mean at this level, jitter should be completely out of the question. Very odd. Makes me think oscillation/intererfance or some other rf phenomenom is occuring.