While the whole article is a piece of comic fiction, complete with so many factual misrepresentations about CD replay that it's not worth even trying to list them, two things did strike me as interesting:
1. Thay claim that the laser angle is adjusted during re-reads. I have no idea whether this could actually ever hope to successfully read some data that had failed with the laser in "standard alignment", but if it can, then it is quite novel. Perhaps they could use that technology to build a CDROM drive that gives the likes of EAC the best possible chance of successfully ripping damaged CDs? 2. The use of flash memory. It is completely obvious why this sounds better than using a hard disk, and it's got nothing to do with jitter. Flash memory is slient, whereas even the quietest hard disk will generate some background noise that will impinge on the playback soundfield. (This is of course why the SB/TP approach - keeping the server out of the listening room - is the correct one). However, there is a serious disadvantage to using flash memory. It wears out after a few tens of thousands of write cycles, and it's expensive (compared to a hard disk). When one's Memory Player stops working because the flash memory is hosed, I shudder to guess how much Nova Physics are going to charge to replace it. -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31595 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
