Why do we care about jitter?

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adhoc said:



I keep seeing this bandied about, and it begs the question - why?


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Yes, good queston.....

A dutch mains filter company (http://www.kempelektroniks.nl/) prefers parallel filtering, rather than adding series impedances.

I heard his biggest filter (power source) and I was impressed, only a tiny bit more dull, but focus and background where much better

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Lessloss boast their DAC reduces jitter to 60ps.

Stereophile report a Benchmark at around 140 and a host of DAC's up to $50,000 worth being excellent at jitter rejection having measured 140 to 150.

They also report many other CDP's and DACS measuring up to 350 being good.

Like statistics, I suppose there is testing and there's testing and no 2 testers will get the same results.

But I have never seen anywhere in their reports that says jitter at a certain level is audible and in what way this audibility manifests.

If jitter is audible at some level, what are it's hallmarks ?
 
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