After a period of work-enforced absence from the boards I was sucked back into this thread over on the Sonos forum concerning how to get the best out of a Sonos system used as a digital front-end, and how to deal with that perennial digital bugbear jitter.

One of the other forum members asked a couple of very simple questions I had great difficulty answering.

• Does jitter have a recognizable, characterizable sonic signature in the same way that analogue distortions such as