By the mid 1990s, jitter, and its audible effects, became established fact. Test equipment manufacturers offered jitter-analysis devices. Other academics published papers on jitter. Manufacturers of professional audio equipment began touting the low jitter in their products. Today, it’s as though the raging debates of the late 1980s and early 1990s never happened—jitter is now accepted as a source of degradation in digital-audio recording and reproduction.
1The first such published report I’m aware of isStereophilefounder J. Gordon Holt’s review of the Sony CDP-605ES in 1986, in which Gordon reported—almost incidentally—that the coaxial connection sounded better.
注1: 我所知的第一篇报道,是Stereophile杂志的创办人J. Gordon Holt在他1986年写的一篇SONY CDP-605ES的评论文章里,几乎是在无意间指出,数码同轴连接的音质更好.