"Bits are bits and as long as the CD player can read them, the accuracy of the spacing doesn’t matter because everything is thrown into a buffer which removes the effect of any jitter written into the data during burning." I know I don’t agree with that logic, but for the life of me I can’t remember the technical reasons.
Could be what you forgot is its wrong. Bits are indeed bits, but the pits and land aren’t bits at all. Each is a word comprised of a whole string of bits, with the length of the pit and the breadth of the land being what determines the string of bits. So it is a time function and anything, including a lot of things GK clowns around about, can mess with the bits and thereby the sound. CD is in other words not digital in the sense almost everyone imagines, but analog. Only CD is analog with a whole lot of noisy circuits and whatnot in the path. So technically even worse than analog. If such a thing even is possible. Which CD proves every day that it is.
Perfect sound forever! Technophilia uber alles!