I don’t think jitter causes dropouts. Are you using WiFi? If you are, that’s more likely the issue I think.
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I am pretty sure I understand jitter generated by streamers and/or DACs. My question is, when a digital recording is created, can there already be jitter in the digital data itself from the ADC? If so, can this ever be corrected during playback, either by the streamer or DAC?