"tony sayer" wrote in message
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Actually my mistake for not making this that clear!..

Jamie over on alt.radio.digital has asserted that most all CD digital
players sound ****e owing to all the jitter they have. He thinks that
this could be eliminated by taking the audio off the CD as a datastream
and putting that onto a hard drive and replaying that via a good sound
card. This according to Jamie would then get rid of the jitter and thus
make the CD audibly better..

Just interesting to see what the contents of uk.rec.audio think of
that..


Ah!, an explanation for this thread at last!

Leaving aside, for the moment, the question of whether CD players sound
"****e" because of jitter to one side for the moment, the mention of a
hard-drive seems singularly inappropriate. Since data is written to, and
recovered from, hard drives in blocks, a pretty substantial RAM buffer is
needed between the drive and the sound card. The effects of jitter on the
audio can be eliminated fairly easily by using an adequate buffer. What
*could* be an issue is the effects of jitter on data recovery, against which
reading of the audio as a datastream and putting it somewhere else for a
while is utterly irrelevant.

David.