Don't Look Back in Anger: Re-evaluating Decades of the Jitters

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This article re-evaluates three decades of jitter in the terms of my position paper The Audio Heretick’s Progress: signal fidelity against audible fidelity, and the single-number FOM: figure of merit. A single number, such as THD+N, SINAD or jitter in picoseconds, used to sum up signal fidelity, with the claim that a better number means better sound. It relates to audible fidelity only at the extremes. The Audio Heretick's Progress: the FOM →.

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Don't Look Back in Anger: Re-evaluating Decades of the Jitters