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OT : Jitter

Good post on the effect of jitter and cables here.
http://www.soundonsound.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=MRT&Number=256321&Searchpage=1...

This is the important bit:

...However, most D-A converters rely on extracting the embedded clock of the input signal to perform the D-A conversion, and jitter here will significantly degrade the converter performance unless the converter is designed to circumvent such unwanted jitter effects. The same is true of A-Ds clocked from an external reference source...

Thr writer is, as well as being technical editor of 'Sound on Sound', an ex BBC engineer - so he knows of what he speaks...

I certainly think it's possible the effects are audible as the sidebands will be generated in the audio band. I don't think jitter is snakeoil, $300 'low jitter' cables certainly are though.

Reminds me, I must get a set of those ceramic speaker cable stands, my stereo doesn't sound 'holistic' enough