USB signal timing goes mainstream. Just an FYI

This link might be better as far as popups at least I didn't get any.

https://semiengineering.com/retimers-replacing-redrivers-as-signal-speeds-increase/

I almost regret posting this.  Don't take much into that article except to point out that timing (not just bit recovery can be a real issue, and that when that bit transition is used in part to determine fully half the reconstructed waveform (the "digital" interface is quasi analog in this regard) imagine how much more impactful it is for those of us who care about this backwater.


The article is neither directly relevant to audio nor particularly leading edge. It was simply in my morning feed and an interesting counterpoint to some tirades. Not worth seeking out.  Want a better discussion of why jitter matters?, see the blog at Sonogy research (somewhere in there)

Jitter matters but hasn't been much of an issue with DACS for about 10 years. 

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/digital-problems-practical-solutions

Properly designed DACs for all intents and purposes are considered ' transparent ' in other words they deal with distortion and noise no matter where it comes from not to say there are still DACs used as distortion generators with tubes and other nonsense stacked on.