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> Never mind the fact that two devices connected with RJ45 ethernet have no direct electrical connection > For the low, low price of $3800, you can be the prou
by outworlder 4y ago
> Never mind the fact that two devices connected with RJ45 ethernet have no direct electrical connection
> For the low, low price of $3800, you can be the proud owner of an audiophile grade, 100Base-T network switch
That buys you a seriously good piece of switching gear with 10GBe (or even higher) fiber optic links to whatever devices you could possibly want in a home. Heck, even a little over $100 buys you a switch with 4 SFP+ (Mikrotik CRS305).
I guess audiophiles will claim that the optical transceivers introduce latency and _they can hear it_
- acje 4y agoThe absolute pain when the entire song is delayed by 10ns or what not. If only I could compensate by pushing play a little bit faster.
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- eurasiantiger 4y agoThe issue is not constant latency, but jitter i.e. latency is changing between bits
- Dylan16807 4y agoJitter matters in very specific cases in very specific pieces of equipment. Jitter on the Ethernet transferring the file will have no effect.
- whstl 4y agoLike the sibling poster said, this won't cause jitter. The audio isn't played directly from the ethernet packets. It has to be decompressed, decoded, buffered. In the end of it all the audio goes into a ring buffer and it is played very precisely by the sound card. The playback itself is a hard-real-time process that needs time guarantees. Failure to fill the ring buffer by any reason can cause audible skips, but not jitter. But most players in practice will simply stop the playback.
- pezezin 4y agoThe maximum jitter allowed by the IEEE specifications is 1.4 ns for 100-megabit Ethernet and 300 ps for Gigabit Ethernet. The bit time for a 48 kHz audio signal is ~20 000 ns. It is absolutely impossible that you can hear the Ethernet jitter.