2. digital
  3. 165424-106038

Does removing "interface jitter" help, if my source has jitter?

I'm thinking of getting a Benchmark 3 DAC, and one of the selling features is its UltraLock3™ jitter attenuation system, which Benchmark says "fully isolates the inputs from INTERFACE jitter" (emphasis mine).   If my upstream source has jitter, will this system isolate that from the DAC?  My usual source is a Blusound Vault, and I suspect its jitter control is not as good as the Benchmark's. 
128x128cheeg

Showing 2 responses by georgehifi

georgehifi's avatar
georgehifi
10,312 posts
 
I knew I could count on you, George…(it’s been a loooooooong time since I’ve been called sunshine).


Well you were applauding and doing cartwheels like an excitable school girl, after only 12hrs and 3 posts of starting the thread up and asking the question..

Cheers George
georgehifi's avatar
georgehifi
10,312 posts
 
Any jitter on S/Pdif will be suppressed. It doesn’t matter what introduced this jitter (CDP or digital cable).

It’s unanimous! Almost unheard-of on Agon.
Little too quick on the trigger there sunshine

If this were correct there would be no difference to be heard (and there is I’ve heard it https://ibb.co/YdpJMJs ) if a separate word clock cable was used to sync both transport and dac off the one "dac clock", instead of them using their own clocks.

Cheers George
More to discover