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?
ethifi

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I plan to mod my Marantz SA-14 v2 CD/SACD player and has two options: use a TCXO (available locally) or a Superclock (need to import).
If I understand Audioengr's point correctly, because TCXO has minimal/no circuit to minimize jitter, Superclock is a better choice to improve CD playback performance? I read that some superclocks use TCXO for the timing part.