-However, the thing about an opto/mechanical (CD) transport is that you have to deal with how well the, uh, transport itself is working - and that's a real-world error-prone process involving light, motors, and quite fragile media. I have several real-life, perfectly reproducible cases where a slightly scratched CD plays fine in one player, and with skips/clicks in another. On a CD with even the most utterly microsocopic imperfections (even a brand new one), you'll find one transport plays it with more errors than another. Impercipble to the ear, maybe, (a single bad sample just gets interpolated) but it's not digital perfection.-
It's often salient to remember that the signal from the CD player pickup (mechanism) isn't digital at all, it's a high-frequency RF signal, with plenty of opportunity for it to get messed up before we even get to processing it! Anyway, to try and understand and visualise jitter better, this little FAQ may help: - http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10480 Andy. -- Andrew L. Weekes _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
