When is digital going to get the soul of music?

Yes, according to a recent study by M. Borzatta and Aloysius Q. Schmaltzenstein Gavronsky, published in the last preprint of Lancet&Dunset, runaway digital jitter can in fact produced significant swelling of the prostate through the formation of pre-cancerous nodules. As the study was based on a very small sample, the team headed by the above researchers is now planning to expand it, and is seeking more volunteers in the audiophile community of the state of California.

Guido,

You would think that there would be more runaway jitter in a carstereo head unit than an audiophile system. Plus the head unit :(, is closer to the affected area.

My Cdplayer is kept at a safe distance if you know what I mean. :)

There is likely to be more raw jitter in a car stereo. On the other hand this is also likely to be cancelled by the extremely poor S/N ratio in the car. Furthermore, being the jitter signal in question in the acoustic domain, rather than in the RF domain, placement of the CD's electronics in close proximity to one's gonads is not expected to exacerbate the situation.

Having just checked my references, it is at this point unclear if the mutagenic gonadotropic effect of runaway digital jitter is at all limited to the acoustic domain, or if instead it is generated in the RF domain, and what its effective range may be. IT is interesting to note that, if a vinyl disk were produced from an early digital recording which exhibited runaway digital jitter caused by problems in the recording or mastering equipment, playback of such disk on a purely analog rig would be as deleterious to the listener's integrity as listening to its CD counterpart.

Interesting, you have way more information than I could find, your specifics are appreciated