Yeah well my experience is very different in that case. I have (retail) CD's that produce 1,000's of errors. I have CD's that are so sha*ged that EAC won't rip them...and they sound like sh*t on ANY cdp...I mean audible distortion of a foul nature - unlistenable.
Whilst I agree that it IS possible to make bit-perfect copies of CD 's onto CDR / hard disk, I strongly disagree that reading of audio cd's by CDP's (or CD/DVD rom drives) is always an error-free process. Why did manufacturers STOP putting error displays on their "perfect" CDP's?...it was not because there were no errors... If this wasn't true, there would be no audible difference between any CD transport. I don't believe that all transports are equal, and I also believe that the EAC (or whatever)+hard disk+SB approach is empirically better in this respect than any spinning disk transport which will NOT repeatedly re-read sectors until it gets an error free read. YMMV -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 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
