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

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Fri May 28 19:07:31 UTC 2010


Veronica Merryfield wrote:
> Just thinking about what I had wrote and remembered the semantics used here...
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>> One more hint: card X is a very high end one. It should
>> be 'perfect', or at least much better than card A.
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> ... 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.
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http://www.maxim-ic.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/3503

And how would this cause the issue?



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