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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 34993" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Digital Boards - Sound QualityNo doubt... If i was trying to sell new expensive digital consoles I&#039;d be telling customers how low my jitter was too.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />. Maybe I&#039;d lower it some more 2 years from now too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />It seems simple (but expensive) to set up a pair of these digital wonder consoles side by side, with identical real music inputs, one with a big Ben and one without then null them out.. The latencies and whatever should cancel out leaving pure &quot;massive&quot; clock jitter related ERROR... or not.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now perhaps an actual massive difference in the null residual could convince me... but i&#039;m not a customer for big dog consoles, so I don&#039;t need to be convinced. You folks need to figure out for yourselves how to spend your money. Another popular recording studio affectation is that somehow digital sum buses are inferior to analog combining (with passive sum buses even more loved). As an old analog designer I know better than that, for the theory part of it at least.&nbsp; However I can&#039;t account for every digital console platform out there so who knows what might be lurking in the woodpiles. If somebody says they heard a massive something, I&#039;m not trying to make them out as liars, maybe they did hear something significant, but perhaps it wasn&#039;t caused by jitter, or digital sum buses, or....&nbsp; That&#039;s why I prefer to measure stuff... it makes it easier to identify the malefactors and drive them into submission.&nbsp; JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 34993, member: 126"] Re: Digital Boards - Sound Quality No doubt... If i was trying to sell new expensive digital consoles I'd be telling customers how low my jitter was too.... :-). Maybe I'd lower it some more 2 years from now too. :-) It seems simple (but expensive) to set up a pair of these digital wonder consoles side by side, with identical real music inputs, one with a big Ben and one without then null them out.. The latencies and whatever should cancel out leaving pure "massive" clock jitter related ERROR... or not. Now perhaps an actual massive difference in the null residual could convince me... but i'm not a customer for big dog consoles, so I don't need to be convinced. You folks need to figure out for yourselves how to spend your money. Another popular recording studio affectation is that somehow digital sum buses are inferior to analog combining (with passive sum buses even more loved). As an old analog designer I know better than that, for the theory part of it at least. However I can't account for every digital console platform out there so who knows what might be lurking in the woodpiles. If somebody says they heard a massive something, I'm not trying to make them out as liars, maybe they did hear something significant, but perhaps it wasn't caused by jitter, or digital sum buses, or.... That's why I prefer to measure stuff... it makes it easier to identify the malefactors and drive them into submission. JR [/QUOTE]

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