Dick Pierce wrote:
He jumps to the conclusion, based on almost no objective data, that
the problem is jitter. He may well be right, but he has no confirming
evidence.

There would be plenty of ways to confirm his diagnosis: simply looking
at the noise floor would be one way, and actually (gasp! horrors! zut
alors!) actually MEASURING the jitter would, i might humbly suggest,
be yet another.

But that was NEVER DONE!

So where, Harry, is the supposed conflict between "ear" and
"instrument" that you see, when, in effect, no "instrument" was
used? He never said that appropriate instrument measurement failed
to reveal the problem. What he DIDN'T say was most eloqient: he never
made ANY relevant measurement.

Indeed. In the *only* measurement he did, Mr. Nichols found that the 'bad
sounding' and 'good sounding' versions were bit-perfect copies. Assuming
jitter is the problem, does that mean that the computer CDR drive he used
to transfer the tracks to hard drive for analysis corrected the jitter
problem, or does it mean that jitter does not change the bits? (Or does it
mean some other thing I'm not thinking of?)

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-S.