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Subject: Re: Stability of sound cards
From: "James L. Gundersen" jgundie@.......
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:27:59 -0700
> Jim Hannon,
Isn't +/-100ppm +/-0.01Hz at 1000Hz?
Jim Gundersen
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Hannon"
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Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 9:05 AM
Subject: Stability of sound cards
> Sound cards use a small surface mount crystal oscillator for their
> reference frequency. These oscillators typically have a stability of +/-
> 100 ppm over a temperature range of -10C to +70C. This is +/- 0.1 Hz at
> 1000Hz. Which is in the same ballpark as the 0.061 Hz per step at 12 bits.
> However the sound card is not very likely to see such temperature
> variations and there are ways of digitally removing offsets and slowly
> varying drift from the data.
>
>
> Jim Hannon
>
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