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[Steve_AS]

That's quite a bit of evidence to raise doubts about the statement "jitter is not audible in most cases".

Actually, it isn't. Wouldn't even make it past first review in most journals. *WHERE'S THE DATA?* There's nothing religious about that request.

 

[Lee Scoggins]

Audio engineers aren't psychoacousticians, nor are they designers of audio equipment

Actually in my experience, most audio engineers become audio equipment designers and many acousticians started as audio engineers.

 

[Steve_AS]

If you believe that, you need to learn more about blind tests.

Again, no evidence of tests for audibility


True, but Benchmark gives some fine theory on how it would be audible.

That's putting the cart before the horse. In general you FIRST establish that the phenomenon exists. Then you theorize how and why.

History (and now, the internet) is littered with intricate theories describing imaginary phenomena. Generally these are the work of crackpots or 'true believers'. Audiophilia gets a pass because it's so far behind the curve anyway, scientifically and in terms of component engineering.

 

[Lee Scoggins]

That's putting the cart before the horse. In general you FIRST establish that the phenomenon exists. Then you theorize how and why.

No this is a fair test because the listener does not know which tracks have lower or higher jitter. They are blind to the right answer, yet many heard more stability and clarity in the low jitter image. Yet we did not change any other parameter: if you know how master clocks work then you know that only the timing distortion is changed, there are no other variables-everything else is kept the same.

I also disagree with the second line where you say that you theorize after the experiment. This is simply wrong on pure scientific terms-scientists often create a hypothesis before the experiment is devised. The critical thing is that the experiment should just test one parameter so we can be assured that other parameters did not impact the outcome.