Ben Diss Wrote: > We all know Redbook doesn't provide any kind of data error correction. That's simply not true. Audio CDs contain extensive redundant data precisely for the purpose of correcting read errors, which happen *all the time*. CDs simply wouldn't work without this mechanism. Granted, audio format CDs don't have as much redundancy as data format CDs, but they still have plenty. And when I say "correcting", I mean exactly that - genuine replacement of the mis-read data with exactly what it should be. Interpolation (ie. making up stuff to replace the missing data) only comes into play if the read error is so severe that there is not enough redundant data to reconstruct it. And as a general rule, most undamaged audio CDs are read with zero uncorrectable errors by a correctly performing CD player.
The whole issue of read errors on CDs (leading to some truely crackpot ideas like treatments with green pens and Armor-All, and now this "memory player") is a myth. -- cliveb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24957 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
