On 2007-05-24, Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , John Phillips
wrote:

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

Possibly, but not in all quarters. From two different online reviews
in the recent edition of Stereophile (just the first place I looked):

"It is hard to predict the subjective effect of such high
jitter, but a flat, rather uninvolving presentation would be my
suggestion. I do note that Wes Phillips found that the Oppo player
sounded somewhat soft and overripe in the midbass, which is one
consequence of high amounts of random jitter, in my experience."

(http://www.stereophile.com/cdplayers...po/index5.html)

and

"However, both systems indicated some slight spectral spreading of
the central peak in the graph, due to the presence of some random
low-frequency jitter. Paul Miller has conjectured that this produces
a somewhat larger depiction of objects within the soundstage than is
strictly accurate, coupled with a rather laid-back presentation."

(http://www.stereophile.com/cdplayers/507nag/index4.html)

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John Phillips