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From: acad!peb@uunet.UU.NET (Paul Baclaski)
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Subject: Re: bitstream CD players
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Date: 12 Jul 90 20:40:13 GMT
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Could someone post a pithy explanation of what bit-stream CD
players do and what the advantage is supposed to be?  I'm very
familiar with oversamping and calibration of DACs since I have
worked with analog engineers in the past, but bit-stream sounds
like a digital technique.

Thanks in advance,

Paul

P.S.: Wizzy, superaccurate CD players of the future:  using an NBS
tracable time base, time stamp each sample to compute out jitter
in your samples...but this might be more accurate than the CD 
mastering process.