Jitter doesn't directly affect the analog signal to a transducer where harmonic distortion and noise do. Jitter affects the fidelity of the digital data stream, common measure is bit error rate (BER)
This you can measure directly.
Somewhere on the Boston Audio Society website there is a procedure for doing this. If you do discover data errors, then there is another whole discussion on how often these need to occur to be audible.
Boston Audio Society is viewed by some as similar to ASR
AES 1998 paper 4826 - Eric Benjamin, Benjamin Gannon - Dolby Labs
Theoretical and Audible Effects of Jitter on Digital Audio Quality
in particular reference figure 9
Thank you all for your input. I ask because the datasheet for the chipset my soundcard uses states the clock's maximum jitter is 2ns and I was curious to know if it's good, bad, or meaningless.
I thought it seemed low, but since I'm ignorant on the topic, I wanted to ask and get your thoughts on the matter.
Thank you @atomicbob, I'm definitely checking those papers out.
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