CardinalFang;175634 Wrote: > I must admit I'm not sure - I don't use EAC, too slow and too much > fussing about to set up. I thought it had concealment via the drive > electronics, but you could be right and it does nothing. In that case, > EAC would be creating audibly broken rips on bad discs rather than a > barely-audible concealment. Is that really the case? As far as I can make out, based on some experiments, if the drive is capable of reporting C2 errors (which most are), then EAC tells the drive NOT to conceal uncorrectable errors, but report them instead. It's at this point that EAC does its re-reading to see if it can get a clean read. But if it exhausts the re-read strategy and there is no clean read, I get the impression that it just uses whatever data it got. And while this is going on, the drive's firmware isn't doing error concealment.
I use a Plextor PX712A drive, and on one disc in particular I was unable to get EAC to achieve a clean rip, using any of its modes. Using Plextools I got a clean rip with audio error detection switched OFF (which presumably activated the firmware's error concealment). But in hindsight, I might not have tried EAC using secure mode but with C2 capability switched off, so I'll give that a go and report back. -- 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=32212 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
