What are TCXO and Superclock?


What are TCXO and Superclock?
What are their differences?
Which one gives better performance on CD players?
What kind of improvements (of a modded player) over stock CD players should one expect to hear?
When looking for (good/excellent) aftermarket TCXO or Superclock, what should one look for?
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TCXO is a temperature controlled oscillator. The advantage is that the frequency tolerance is very tight.

Superclock is a module oscillator that has circuitry to minimize jitter in the output signal. It may drift and change frequency more than the TXCO, but absolute frequency is not that important in audio. The jitter is more important because the S/PDIF interface is affected by jitter.