30 Years of Perfect Sound?

CDP's do have jitter. But as we all know by now the amount of jitter has been reduced by newer generations of players to a level that is measurable but no longer audible, even to the most discerning ears. AES has had some interesting but lengthy papers on the subject.

The only thing that computer audio has murdered is the sound.

And thank you, Tmsorosk, for the further clarification.
I'll try to understand those AES papers.

I guess if I get more clarification, then, like butter, all the impurities will separate and a finer product will arise, which will allow me a recipe for better for sound.:-)

All the best,
Nonoise

"The only thing that computer audio has murdered is the sound.'

Come hear mine. Maybe I can change your mind.

10-06-12: Nonoise
Does anyone here know if it's true that a CDP has no jitter as stated in the article in question? It's one thing to knock the guy and how he came to his conclusions but I haven't seen a refutation of the no jitter issue.

Even if that were so, it doesn't address that CDs themselves can have varying amounts of inherent jitter. How could there not be when pits are being encoded on a flimsy disc spinning at high speed?

Does anyone remember the Genesis Time Lens? It was meant to be placed between the transport and the DAC. The Time Lens had enough RAM to buffer all the bits and then reclock the datastream before sending it on to the DAC. Genesis founder Arnie Nudell said one secret to his excellent-sounding demos was that he played CD-Rs he'd recorded through the Digital Time Lens. According to the article, he claimed that his de-jittered copies sounded better than the originals.

In my computer-based audio I use Audirvana's buffering feature, streaming the datastream into a 700MB cache before it's sent on to the DAC. It definitely sounds better than directly streaming it from the USB drive where I hold all my music.