It's not a matter of audiophiles. If jitter is that jarring, how jarring would it be to sit in a cinema with completely offset speakers? Much, much more lag between synchronised audio than than any technical faults, because you're not sat in the middle, or even close to the middle of the speakers in most cases. You ought to be able to hear crazy phasing by moving one headphone away from the head when the other stays on the ear. The real world isn't like that no matter what number you look at.
What some people appear to be saying is that there are mutants who have super-exceptional hearing, who's appreciation of music is destroyed by the occasional nanosecond skip in a wave, and who can't walk around the rest of the world with it's off-centre speakers without being driven crazy by the audio distortions. Maybe there is such a sub-species of human...but I don't see what the blazes this has to do about consoles and games! Moved to HiFi...if there was a HiFi. Moved to HTPC, which it isn't really but hey.
What some people appear to be saying is that there are mutants who have super-exceptional hearing, who's appreciation of music is destroyed by the occasional nanosecond skip in a wave, and who can't walk around the rest of the world with it's off-centre speakers without being driven crazy by the audio distortions. Maybe there is such a sub-species of human...but I don't see what the blazes this has to do about consoles and games! Moved to HiFi...if there was a HiFi. Moved to HTPC, which it isn't really but hey.