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

[Ralf Mardorf]

Ricardus Vincente wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 11:54 -0700, Veronica Merryfield wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>       
>> ... 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.
>>     
>
>  I blame Gremlins.
>
>  Do I win?
>
>  Ricardus...
>   

I blame laws of nature and I'm right with this, but I guess it's a 
little bit to abstract, not the complete wanted answer.