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Archimago wrote: 
> Here's Ethan Winer and discussion of jitter manifesting in the analogue
> output as FM modulated sidebands:
> http://ethanwiner.com/audibility.html

Uh, but Ethan is a well-known "bits are bits" preacher - and what would
he know, anyway, he's just an acoustics engineer and musician. 

> Anyone who cares so much about timing and jitter should have a good look
> at vinyl wow & flutter - orders of magnitude worse!

But that is *analog* wow and flutter. It just makes the sound warmer and
more musical, just like the 2% distortion from a pickup. 

> Oh, BTW, 'here's Mark Waldrep's testing with the Regen'
> (http://www.realhd-audio.com/?p=5150). Predictably, -nada -according to
> him but there were some other followups with folks who thought they did
> hear something... Alas no actual controlled ABX'ing I think. The
> arguments rage on...

But isn't Waldrep the guy who pointed out that most "hi-res" recordings
aren't? And how would he know, he's just a recording engineer, right?

</satire>



"To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this
fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt
edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953
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