Hi, I don't think you have it correct about HDCD. My understanding is the tracks are identical, but an area of the disc is used to store extra info that can be decoded with the correct hardware.
check the Wiki for HDCD "HDCD is a proprietary process, and no accurate technical description has been released to the public. Hence, none of its claims have any evidence. In fact, since the technology does not involve compression, and still allows an audio CD to hold the normal 80 minutes of audio within 700MB, the additional 4 bits of bit depth it claims to add to the recording cannot physically exist. HDCD encoding places a control signal in the least significant bit of the 16-bit Red Book audio samples (a technique known as in-band signaling). The HDCD decoder in the consumer's CD player, if present, responds to the signal. If no decoder is present, the disc will be played as a regular CD. In itself, the use of the least significant bit does little to degrade sound quality on a non-HDCD player (only decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio by a minuscule amount)." Regards, M. -- mudlark SB3>CyrusDACX>PreXvs>260A>KEFiQ7 cable Avondale server Kubuntu Edgy, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mudlark's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7151 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32967 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
