jhm731;183596 Wrote: > Universal players have large RAM buffers. The disc spins at x2 to x10. > The data output is free of error and jitter. The idea that computer > audio is superior is because it re-reads and buffers is false. >
How can the output be "free of jitter"? That's nonsensical. Bit errors simply aren't an issue with a decent CD player and a CD in reasonable condition. I get perfect rips nearly all of the time on a new disc, and most of the time on a lightly scratched one, with $30 CD-ROM drives and little or no re-reading. If there is an audible difference it has to do with jitter or the analogue stage, not with the digital data. And if you're worried about errors in the SB RAM, those happen in CD players too (since they all buffer the data before playing it out). I'd be surprised if there isn't internal error checking in the SB which eliminates that; there certainly is in a computer (where even single bit errors are extremely uncommon). -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32993 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
