cliveb Wrote: > The only difference between the two is that the TCP/IP protocol used in > a SB setup allows for the re-transmission of bad data, while in a CD > player the disc can't be re-read to account for errors. But since the > overwhelming majority of non-faulty CDs are read without error, this is > of no practical significance.
This doesn't make sense to me - what's the point of the buffer if the CD can't be re-read? In that case if the buffer held 10 seconds of music, you'd simply hear the skip 10 seconds after your car went over a bump rather than in real time. Instead, I think the CD player must go back and re-read the CD during those 10 seconds. Probably what you meant is that there are no check-bits which tell the player when a small error (a few bits mis-read) has occurred, unlike in TCP/IP. I'm still wondering (see my earlier post in this thread) whether fancy DACs such as the Benchmark really solve the problem with source jitter, and if so how. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
