In article , John Phillips
wrote:

A common audiophile postulate for audibility of different discs of
nominally identical material is "jitter".

This surprises me a little, having looked at some AES papers on the
audibility thresholds for jitter. Although the research does says that
audible jitter at 10 kHz and above is remarkably low.

Also it seems to me that the jitter hypothesis relies on inadequate
engineering of clock extraction circuits to allow enough jitter to get
through to the audio output. Quite possible I suppose, but eminently
curable (and should not happen in the first place).

I may be wrong, but it is my impression that 'jitter' is falling out of
fashion as a 'reason' for the comments made about the 'sound' of players.

Slainte,

Jim

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