Hi all
I have a question about jitter. Somebody on another forum used the phrase "embedded jitter". My understanding is that jitter represents timing errors in a digital signal. In other words, when a digital file is being sent from a computer to a DAC, jitter would occur when the bits arrive at the DAC with inaccurate timing gaps between them. But I assumed that if a digital file is sent from, say, an external HD to a computer's RAM, then whilst there may be timing errors in the arrival of the bits, once the file is sitting in RAM there can be no "embedded jitter". In other words, I thought jitter was a function of the passage of a file from A to B, not something that existed within a file as it sits at either A orB!
Am I right or wrong please?