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When commercial CDs were the only digital source available, I blamed 16/44 digitisation but the above experience doesn't bear this out. Now I suspect it's something to do with the way CDs are manufactured (don't ask me what). It does seem that throwing lots of money at the CD player can help as I've heard some very expensive units which don't show the problem but since only about 5% of my music is on CD I'm not prepared to spend the money buying one. Some people explain this by jitter (small variations in the timing of the digital stream caused by the physical mechanism of the transport causing the DAC to output the wrong result) but if this is so, why do home produced and some commercial disks sound OK ? Maybe it's just me.


You've been reading too many suc^H^H^Haudiophile zines. Digital encoding is generally immune to any such imaginations. Sure a crappy mechanism could, in theory, screw it up, but I really doubt there are any decks that crappy in existence, since it's pretty easy to get it right with a digital signal.

-ml