[sdiy] OT: Scratchy CDs

[Ingo Debus]

Am Dienstag, 23.09.03 um 21:29 Uhr schrieb Michael Boracci:

> Jitter is one issue here which is non-mechanical in nature, however, I 
> know
> those audiophile freaks ( I don't mean that in a bad way actually )use 
> all
> kinds of isolation products to remove the effects of mechanical 
> vibration.
>

I'm not sure what jitter means in this context. Clock jitter of the 
audio DAC in a CD player? This cannot be caused by mechanical problems 
of the CD drive, since every CD player has a data buffer. Any clock 
jitter here is the jitter of an electronic (quartz) oscillator.

Ingo