Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Ian Molton
wrote:

surely (massive) jitter from the *disc* end of things would manifest as
read errors rather than jitter in the output stream?



The usual academic response. "Depends what you mean by..." :-)

Jitter when trying to read the channel bit steam off the disc might mean
some bits were lost or repeated.

However (in principle) the player might accomodate that, but in doing so
end up jittering the 'correct' bit series it outputs so much as to annoy or
confuse a following DAC/receiver.

So "yes or no"... :-)

Again though, the CD is read as fast as required to keep the read-buffer
half full, which is, in turn drained at a constant rate. I cant see how
jitter filling that buffer could manifest on the output unless it was
great enough to drain the buffer or cause a read error that wasnt
correctable, neither of which would really be 'normal operating
conditions'...