Lee,
Dave Wilson studied and often referred to propagation-delay noise in crossovers, nicknaming is at "anti-jitter crossover technology" in his designs. It is an analog phenomena, not related at all with digital jitter.
The JVC glass master process is just an example of an interesting but inconsequent audio development - at a time that CD reading transports and mechanisms were extremely sensitive to pit shape and characteristics it resulted in a different (better according to many of us) sound quality.
Here in WBF we had a thread where Gary Koh thought us how to copy our CDs with a selected l burn-in driver, software and media - I tried it myself. They were bit exact and sounded different in some transports, as expected, but had other consequences ...
The pro-word was mainly interested in data integrity, a real problem in the early days of digital.
The papers he has shown you were surely not on digital jitter technology. BTW, language purists objected to his use of the word "jitter" in the audiodiy forum.
As I stated I do not see any led from the audiophile world to the professional audio world in what we have been talking about.
Well, digital recording is much more complex than just 24/96 PCM and DSD. I believe in your experience and findings, but is just says that using the particular hardware you refer there was a significant difference, nothing else.
I am an old time reader of TAS and still own the complete collection starting at issue one and I am a supporter of the high-end audio press. I can see that high-end stereo, mainly due to digital progress, is nowadays much more complex and time consuming than in the early HP days and no one can embrace all areas. Being audiophiles we can learn a lot from other audiophiles. But, although there are exceptions I can't see how audiophiles can led professionals - we are too diverse, individualist and hobby oriented to supply them with trusty and reliable information, something they surely need.